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AI_birder
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's avatar
    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's avatar
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

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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Oct 22, 2019
Andrew is correct, this is not wrong and it works like this by design

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