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Brass Contributor

Feb 08, 2020

Solved

Private channel - sync to explorer doubles the site name

Hello everyone, I'm experiencing some odd behavior that I hope someone can explain. While in the Teams app, I created a private channel called "Payroll" in a team called "EVG-Finance" and then cl...

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ChrisHoardMVP
Feb 09, 2020
Hi guys,

This is as designed. Private channels create separate site collections. In explorer, it is showing the name of the site collection not a duplication.

Example of standard channel

EVG-Finance (site collection) - General (Folder)

Example of private channel

EVG-Finance - Payroll (Site Collection) - Payroll (Folder)

Hope that makes sense. It is the way that Teams is architected. I can see how it’s confusing as part of the site collection is named the same as the folder and gives the impression when synced to explorer that it’s duplicated when it’s not.

Hope that answers your question. We all have the same 😄

Best, Chris

sgideon

Copper Contributor

Aug 15, 2023

Agree. This is not logical at all from a user perspective. Nobody cares about the design of the Sharepoint sites and libraries in the background (except the admin) .
Having a understandable structure is a basic requirement. I really like the advantages Teams, Sharepoint and OneDrive provide. But sometimes I wonder, if the designers of the UX ever talked to an enduser.

Here a feature-request I've posted recently. Something in that direction would be nice:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/945df97d-9337-ee11-a81c-6045bdbbbc93

ChrisHoardMVP

MVP

Sep 03, 2023

Morning all

Just getting back onto the tech community after a long time.

This has been an issue for a long time, and can be shown when it was opened here in the Tech Community. It was raised on UserVoice 100%, but then if I remember I don't think it was migrated to Feedback Portal when Microsoft moved the uservoices over. It has been raised anew several times per these ones

Do not duplicate channel name in folder name when syncing files to desktop · Community (microsoft.com)

Reducing Duplicate sharepoint names for restricted folders - Windows File Explorer · Community (microsoft.com)

And the ones provided above

Microsoft ideally needs to consolidate all the feedback items into a single one, and then as many people raise on it as possible to get it in front of engineering. Now there is the possible workaround as someone suggested above - but ideally the real solution is to fix it natively and not have to make manual changes locally which could cause issues, difficult to manage programatically and adds overhead when there are issues. I'll bring it to the attention of the engineering team: doesn't mean anything may happen, but hopefully they can start amalgamating these so it shows more people want to see this change.

Thanks so much for pushing this native design change forward

Best, Chris