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Re: Unable to Delete Doc Library synced folder from Windows Explorer
David ChamberlainThanks. This works on most folders, but not on all. Two folders refuse to disappear from the Windows Explorer view. A pop-up windows displays this error: Title: "Location is not available." Error text: "C:\users\<abc>\<sharepointname> - documents\<channelname>\<projectname>\...\ABC is not accessible. The tag present in the reparse point buffer is invalid." I found a post on that error https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/11a0f585-b985-4a07-b6a0-f64dbce56536/onedrive-file-locked-with-quotdata-in-the-reparse-point-buffer-is-invalidquot-message?forum=win10itprogeneral. In the above path, <abc> represents my user name, <sharepointname> represents a SharePoint site of which I sync the entire document folder to Windows. <channelname> is a document subfolder and also a channel in Teams. <projectname> is the name of a project. The entire path C:\...\ABC is a 14-level deep folder tree. ABC is the lowest level folder and contains no files. The relevant history is that this folder structure had contained project documentation, but the full tree, starting from <channelname> on down had been moved to a new SharePoint site. The path above was the longest one in the tree, and perhaps this triggered a bug.51KViews1like1CommentRe: Office 2016 - Display a list of all SharePoint Online sites a user has access to when saving a file
I have the same remark. A new SharePoint user, such as a new employee, will not yet have any sites listed under "Following" or "Recent", so an obvious first step would be to search for what is accessible. Many user fora posts question the right to do this, citing that "there might be hundreds of sites". (Yeah, so?) Others do offer a solution, for which I am always grateful, yet, like Jenny, they tend to never offer step-by-step instructions. The best answer that I have found to date, is to teach end users to search for "contentclass: STS_Site". To offer end users an even easier way seems to require advanced SharePoint skills...7.6KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Linking the files tab of a Teams channel to a different SharePoint site?
GAScott I ran into a very similar issue today: when I had renamed a SharePoint documents folder, its link to the Teams "Files" tab was broken. Here is how I changed the name after all. Context: I had originally created a new Team team called "MIS", the name of our business unit. Within the new team I had created a new channel called "MIS management meetings". This resulted neatly in the creation of a SharePoint site "MIS" and a folder "MIS management meetings" within the "Documents" section of the SharePoint site. Then, wanting to drop the "MIS" bit from the name, I renamed the Teams channel from "MIS management meetings" to "Management meetings", and all was fine. But when I renamed the SharePoint folder from "MIS management meetings" to just "Management meetings", the "Files" tab in Teams showed up empty. There seems to be no way in Teams to point the channel "Files" tab towards a new folder name. In other words, it seems impossible to access the metadata for the "File" tab and type a new path. On helpdesk fora, two other options are given: to select "Add cloud storage", or to add a new tab linking to SharePoint site. These were not what I wanted. I wanted to simply keep one single "Files" tab but redirect it to the new folder. Neither did I want to keep the old original folder name. What I did to solve the problem: 1. I temporarily renamed the SharePoint folder as well as the channel to their old name "MIS management meetings". This restored the content of the channel "Files" tab. 2. I created a new empty folder on SharePoint called "Management meetings" 3. In Teams, I created a new channel called "Management meetings". This creation led to the automatic detection of the SharePoint folder, which correctly showed up as the "Files" tab. 4. In SharePoint, I moved all documents from "MIS Management meetings" to "Management meetings". As a result, the subfolders and files now showed up in the "Files" tab of the new channel "Management meetings". 5. I deleted the old channel "MIS Management meetings", accepting the loss of a few conversations within it. (Luckily we had run into this issue quickly so nothing much valuable was lost). The best solution would be that Teams admins could simply open the metadata for the channel "Files" tab and point it towards a different folder.94KViews0likes1Comment
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