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Unable to remove old account sing up form Teams on Mac OS
I cannot remove an old sing account from Teams on Mac OS. I have to delete the keychain, I delete the temp folder, and remove and reinstall Teams, and the old account is still there. I have a case open with the Microsoft team, and they cannot figure it out. Where is the login info store, and why has Microsoft not provided a solution where users can remove accounts as easily as they can add? Please help!
I tried following steps without any success [successful one shared at the end of the post]
- quitting the app and uninstalling it
- then deleting the cache from ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/
- deleting all the keys from Key Chain Access that came as a part of teams keyword search
- re-installing the app
It didn't work.This worked
- did all the above steps
- search Microsoft keyword in the key Chain Access
- delete the keys that has com.microsoft.oneauth and com.microsoft.adalcache
This will remove the existing accounts at the startup.
Hope this helps.
- Thank you so much! Deleting Application Support files in both User and System Library + removing keys from Keychain Access worked for me.
Anit_Kumar THAT worked for me, thank you very much!
Anit_Kumar Thank you so much! Worked for me.
For other novices like me - right click the file to "get info" on keychain file (oneauth and the other one) to bring up the window in Anit's post.
I reinstalled the new version of Teams rather than the Classic version I'd had before - not sure if this made any difference.
- Hello,
Can you check if you can delete the information from the below steps:
1. Uninstall Microsoft Teams (Go to Applications -> Microsoft Teams -> Command+Delete -- when asked, enter MAC password)
2. Browse to ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/ (Terminal -- cd ~/Library/"Application Support"/Microsoft/)
3. Delete Entire "Teams" folder (sudo rm -rf Teams)
4. Install Microsoft Teams
5. Open Teams. Use as usual, as this would either let you chose an existing account and follow process or will prompt to enter your desired account to chose)
With Regards,
Satish U- Thank you for the suggestion, I have tried, and is not working. This is a major bug for MS Teams for MacOS. I should be able with out any technical knowledge to remove any user id that I wish from MS Teams.
Jovan_S I'm having the same issue.... With an old employer account
RealTime_M365 I have tried that and NOT WORKING!
- So I also have this problem, on a *brand new Mac*!!! So the issues is clearly at MS´ servers, not the local device. And yes, I've tried the solutions listed below.
- Same here, cant remove older accounts
In Keychain search "microsoft" instead of "teams" and remove any "application password" type files starting with com.microsoft.oneauth.*
This is what finally fixed it for me.Thank you for the suggestion, and sadly it does not work at all. I (we the MS engen) have tried it all and no one can find out what is going on. At one point they said there are hidden files that drive the log in but where are there !
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