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Copper Contributor

Oct 22, 2019

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
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

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Andrew is correct, this is not wrong and it works like this by design

ChemicalEngineer

Copper Contributor

Nov 06, 2019

jcgonzalezmartinis there a way to untie the Teams & SharePoint connection? I don't want to have the site connected to Teams anymore and I don't want this random General folder in our documents directory.

The last time I tried removing the Teams connection I ended up deleting the entire SharePoint site. Can you provide guidance?

Ian Moran
Steel Contributor
Nov 06, 2019
ChemicalEngineer the supported way would be to remove the Team which removes the associated SharePoint site. Then re-create a SharePoint site from SharePoint Home (if enabled by your admin)

Every time you create a Team it creates an Office 365 Group which in turn spins up a SharePoint site collection. This is all by design.