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Teams Channel Posts and the Files Folder
When people post images or files into a Teams Channel conversation, Teams automatically saves that image or file into the main Files directory for that channel, rather than in a more suitable location like a Chat subfolder.
This must be something people have been asking for, for years: How can we change this? Any Teams channel must look like an absolute burning pile of trash, with screenshots building up in the outermost directory of the Channel's file/folder tree.
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Just wait till CoPilot starts going through all these screenshots and outdated docs that are posted in these channels!
The best I found we can do for now is to designate team owners who are responsible for cleaning their own yards (ie files in channels) from time to time.
In addition to file management, they need to manage their channels, members, recordings, external contributors etc.Files go into the channel folder, images do not, they are stored outside SharePoint like messages.
Hi StevenC365 , unfortunately images are stored too if you use the "Attach" icon to send it.
If you use Copy/Paste resource, images won't be stored there.
thiagofonseca If you upload an image as a file from your local machine using the desktop or web version of Teams it will be a file. If you copy/paste, or insert an image on mobile or take a picture it won't be a file and will only be in the media service.
