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Copper Contributor

Oct 22, 2019

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General folder automatically created

Hi For some reason Teams keeps creating a folder called General for a all teams I'm a member of. This is really annoying as it gets replicated on a sharepoint site where we don't want a folder ca...

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Andrew Hodges
Oct 22, 2019
Hi AI_birder ,

Afraid there is nothing we can do about that. By default a folder is created in the Standard "Documents" library in the SharePoint site for each channel.

For formal document management I don't use the "Documents" library I create other document libraries to save it getting clogged up with any document or image that gets attached to a Team chat.

Hope that helps

Andy

Andrew Hodges

Bronze Contributor

Oct 22, 2019

Hi AI_birder ,

Afraid there is nothing we can do about that. By default a folder is created in the Standard "Documents" library in the SharePoint site for each channel.

For formal document management I don't use the "Documents" library I create other document libraries to save it getting clogged up with any document or image that gets attached to a Team chat.

Hope that helps

Andy

luckman212

Brass Contributor

Jul 20, 2024

I encountered this annoying problem in July 2024. We started using our "default" SharePoint site as our Document library for our small team of <10 users a few years ago. Now it has several TB of data in it and would be somewhat difficult to move. But, if there is a way to do it, we will.

It is troublesome that every time someone makes a new Team, it creates these "General" and other named folders at the root of our SP Documents library.

Is there anywhere (official or otherwise) that documents a step-by-step process of how to set up a separate SP site to house these Teams folders so they don't clutter and pollute our main Sharepoint site?