Cannot upload word document to Microsoft Teams space. "The following characters..."

[jpitrelli]

I keep getting an error message when trying to upload a word doc to Teams. 

The error message says "The following characters are not..." but I cannot see the rest of the error message. When I click on the notification, it disappears. This is very frustrating because I don't know what characters I have to remove for the file to be accepted by Teams. Please help.

[#2]

Please let us know the name of the file!

Adam

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check that your file doesn't include any of the following characters

" * : < > ? / \ |

There is also some restrictions in OneDrive (that Teams uses) of other names in filenamnes (.lock, CON, PRN, AUX, NUL... ) and some restrictions of length (400 characters including path)

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-...

[#4]

The issue was actually in the file name. It had a # in it. The file uploaded fine with " * : < > ? / \ | in it.

Thanks!

[#5]

Great you sorted it out!!

Adam

[#6]

@adam deltinger  This should be taken as a bug in Teams.  Any file with a valid filename should be allowed to be dropped. It also wouldn't hurt to fix the messaging so you'd know what it's complaining about.