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Copper Contributor

Jul 09, 2020

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Problem uploading documents in .pdf format

This is Akshay Joglekar from India. I am consistently having issues uploading a .pdf file on teams. The process starts, and then stops midway. Then after a long pause the screen says that the file ca...

Anonymous
Aug 25, 2020
Akshay_Joglekar07 Hello,
Even I had the same problem persisting me for a few months. Even my school uses Microsoft Teams. I found a new way, but a longer one. Just upload the pdf file to any of your friend's or family's private chat. Then go to assignments, instead of choosing Upload from This Device, choose OneDrive, if it is available for your Organization. Then, open the Microsoft Teams Chat Files and choose the file to upload. 🙂
There's also another way. Instead of uploading it to a private chat, just try uploading it to a channel. Instead of clicking OneDrive, choose Teams, then choose the Team and Channel you uploaded it to.
Hope it helps you 🙂

Akshay_Joglekar07

Copper Contributor

Jul 09, 2020

HenryPhillipsNimbitech

Thanks for your concern...

Ill answer the questions one by one!

1 - Yes this issue is with all .pdf files, not just one

2 - Yep... This is the third time this has happened, with different files all three times

3 - I tried uploading from the device (i.e. My laptop HDD and my phone)

4 - I am uploading as a submission to an assignment

5 - I did this on the app on my phone and on the web via my laptop.

Thanks a lot!!

HenryPhillipsNimbitech

Bronze Contributor

Jul 09, 2020

Hi Akshay_Joglekar07 ,

Ah OK, so this is Teams for Education. I don't suppose we know if the assignment was created in OneNote do you? Apparently this is a common error that Microsoft has yet to fix, if that is the case.

When you create an assignment in OneNote, you will not be able upload anything else to it, and you get that message.

The work around is to create the assignment in Teams first, then add the OneNote page you want to use.

The above was taken from: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/education_ms/forum/all/cannot-upload-files-to-teams-assignments-there-was/3c51c58a-f115-43ca-a252-55dbcce6808c

I must admit I am not that up on the Education use of Teams and it is hard to trial as I do not have an Educational organisation email address.

Thanks

Henry