Sharepoint/Teams linked folder loop
Good Morning, I have an issue with a folder loop within our sharepoint site. I'll try to describe it as best I can. We have a SharePoint page: https://site.sharepoint.com/sites/Teams-Channel/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx On this page we click on Documents and we go to the Documents page where there are two collapsed tabs; In Channels and In Library. If we expand the In Channels part there is an entry for a Page1. When we click on Page1 it takes us to a page with folders on it, when we click on the folder is brings us back to the same page, albeit with a much longer URL. https://site.sharepoint.com/sites/Teams-Channel/Shared%20Documents/Project%20Team?id=%2Fsites%2FTeams-Channel%2FShared%20Documents%2FProject%20Team&viewid=a16dd475%2Dc62f%2D40c5%2Db27f%2Dcbbc3514d170&newTargetListUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fsiteproxy.ruqli.workers.dev%3A443%2Fhttps%2Fsite%2Esharepoint%2Ecom%2Fsites%2FTeams-Channel%2FShared%20Documents%2FProject%20Team I know the problem is the newTargetListUrl, but i want to know if I can fix this? Some things to note as far as i can tell: This is a sharepoint page created by a teams channel, the files were uploaded via Teams. if you have any questions or need anything cleared up, please ask and I'll do my best to elucidate. DK
MacOS 14.8.1 OneDrive - Timestamped Sync Root directory?
Hello community, Attempted a plethora of web searches to find someone else who may have seen this. I utilize Shared Libraries with my MacOS OneDrive, and it seems within my ./Library/CloudStorage/ there are two versions of the Sync Root: OneDrive-SharedLibraries-*Company*/Directories & OneDrive-SharedLibraries-*Company* (Timestamp)/Directories This Timestamped Sync Root has over 140GBytes of 'reported' storage space consumption. Some of the folders already exist in OneDrive-ShareLibraries-*Company*/Directories, but others do not. Was curious if anyone else has seen this before and knows if the related storage can be 'freed'?
Can upload file from Teams chat files to Posts but not to Shared
I was working on an Excel file shared in a chat with members of a small workgroup. When it was ready to share with the larger team, I navigated to the appropriate Team > Channel, created a Post, clicked on + > Attach file > selected the file (which had been modified recently, so displayed on the pop-up). The team lead asked me to save it in a particular folder in the team's files, so I navigated to Shared (formerly Files)... and did not see it. I could briefly see it if I selected the "In messages" filter, but then after a moment that bugged out and displayed the "Something went wrong" error screen. This behavior persisted (briefly visible file list, then error screen) even after quitting Teams via the task bar and opening it back up. I did not want to create a separate version (especially now that the original file was linked in the Post), so I tried a few different methods to get it into Shared. I tried copying a link, but couldn't figure out a good way to paste it into Shared. I tried pasting it in a new Link, but that preserved it as a link/URL rather than a file -- serviceable but awkward. I checked whether there was an easier way to do it by opening in the web version, where Files is still active rather than Shared (same behavior, except no "In messages" filter so I couldn't test that). I poked around in SharePoint but didn't see anything interesting. I tried uploading a copy from within Shared by pasting the filepath from the "Save a Copy" dialog in Excel... ...and that's when I noticed a possible cause of the issue: another member of the original workgroup chat had created the file, and it was living in her Teams chat files, not mine. I then had her try doing it by navigating to her Teams chat files and selecting her copy, and then hallelujah, it appeared in Shared. I was able to drag it to the appropriate folder normally. Ultimately, I see two questions: Why does the file appear when the "In messages" filter is selected, but not otherwise? Why can I add a file saved in someone else's Teams chat files to a Post, but I can't upload it in Shared? Bonus: any idea why the "In messages" filter caused an error message to display?
A bunch of files are missing from Desktop folders managed by OneDrive
I don't use OneDrive at all, but my mom who's not tech-savvy at all has it on her laptop. Today, she suddenly notices that a bunch of files from a folder on desktop have disappeared. It seems like all of the desktop are managed by/synced with OneDrive but there's some sort of error preventing her from seeing/access those files. Please see the screenshots. Since my 60+ years old mother is really not up-to-date with the tech, she can't tell me if she's done anything with OneDrive (she doesn't even know what it is and that she's using it), when the last update was, etc. But she is not computer illiterate enough that she would accidentally delete all these files from those folders herself. Is there any way of getting these files back and shut off OneDrive permanently so it won't sneak back onto her laptop with the next Windows Update? Thanks in advance!
PnP Search Results Handlebars template saves but does not reflect on UI
Hi everyone, I am working with the PnP Search Results web part in SharePoint Online and facing an issue where a custom Handlebars result template saves successfully but does not reflect on the UI. I created a table-style Handlebars template with columns Document, Region, Country, Language, Status and Validation Date, one row per document. Documents are returned correctly and filters based on the same refinable properties work as expected. Debug output using JSONstringify(item) confirms that all refinable values are present. The same if-condition logic using item.RefinableStringXX works in a list-style layout, but in a table layout the template saves without errors and either does not reflect on the UI or renders rows with empty metadata columns. Inline bindings do not render unless wrapped in if blocks and even after fixing this the UI sometimes continues to show the previous layout. Managed property mappings, selected properties, indexing and library reindexing have already been verified. Has anyone experienced this behavior with PnP Search Results templates or knows if this is related to caching, result types overriding templates or a known limitation with table-style Handlebars layouts?
Recently saved local file not available
I saved an excel file to my OneDrive Documents directory (.xlsx) when I was offline. OneDrive notified that a local copy was saved due to being offline. However, the file does not exist where I saved it. I searched the entire documents dir with explorer and it is not there. What's going on? When I was back online I was able to open it. This is not the behavior I selected in OneDrive, I selected always save a local copy. When I was offline I was able to open other workbooks. There have been other files that I can't access when offline. This makes me want to quit using OneDrive. Can someone please explain how to fix this?
Automated upload competing with users who have a file open in Co-authoring mode
This behavior began approximately mid-December. An automated process uploading/overwriting a file located in SharePoint online was constantly receiving errors when executing. We ran through several scenarios for troubleshooting but in the end, we had found that a user would open the file and leave it open in the background through the working day. This behavior produced some co-authoring lock on the file where people could get in and work on the file at the same time but locked out the automated process that would upload a new version of the file regularly. We fixed the behavior after consulting with the people who were referencing the file, they were gathering data from it and were not updating it in any way. So, we broke the permission inheritance for this file and set it up to be read-only for all users but the process that was uploading the file. This allowed the people to reference the file and undid the locking behavior that we had observed. Now, before the middle of December, this locking mechanism didn't exist. Users could have the file open in edit mode and our automated process to update the file was able to upload and overwrite at the same time without issues. Has anyone else observed this behavior within the last few months? We didn't open up a ticket with Microsoft to get an official answer if something new was perhaps implemented and we're curious if anyone has opened a ticket regarding this behavior. Also, I briefly look through the message center and couldn't find any changes in there that seemed to be related to this change by their titles. The error that was seen from the automated process was: The remote server returned an error: (423) Locked. Any input appreciated - I am definitely curious to hear if others are observing this as well.Page Redirection
Hello, I am trying to simulate a migration scenario in SharePoint Online and am running into a limitation I cannot resolve. For demo/testing purposes, I have two SharePoint Online sites (e.g. Old and New). I would like to redirect a small number of individual pages from the old site to corresponding pages in the new site, while the rest of the old site remains unchanged. Example: Redirect https://ps3c.sharepoint.com/sites/Old/SitePages/Test.aspx to https://ps3c.sharepoint.com/sites/New/SitePages/Test.aspx The page is a modern SharePoint page, and the URL itself is fixed for the purpose of the demo (i.e. users or tools open the page directly on *.sharepoint.com). All documentation I could find only describes redirecting entire SharePoint sites, not individual modern pages. Client-side approaches (JavaScript, HTML meta refresh, etc.) also appear to be blocked in modern SharePoint. Is there any supported or recommended way in SharePoint Online to implement page-level redirects for modern pages, or is this currently not supported by design? Kind regards
Quick Parts for SharePoint Properties and file corruption
I'm wondering whether anyone has successfully used quick parts in footers, with a heavily commented SharePoint file without corruption? We have content types with templates, that use quick parts connecting to SharePoint properties. We have been in discussions with Microsoft and all we can get from them is that there are multiple circumstances where adding comments corrupts the file if quick parts are used. This does not give me confidence that quick parts should be used for anything. But, our workflow requires a date and status be set based on SPO properties at a certain point in our workflow to mark a file as approved before pdfing. Has anyone had success using quick parts in SharePoint? We are using docx files because we have a templates library where we edit our templates so we then link to those from the content types. Our templates have custom formatting that is very dense. We do have quick parts in the header, footer, and table. With all they are saying below, it sounds like quick parts are risky and do not work. But since we need it I'm thinking we pull formatting out of our footer, and just have the one date and text field populated, we could live with the rest not working. Has anyone had success with this? and if not, how are you populating dates when documents are finalized. Manually? Microsoft's recommendations imply Quick Parts are dodgy and can't be relied upon: Move comments out of the structured range Place Modern Comments on the paragraph before/after the Quick Part; avoid anchoring inside the building block or content control. Bind formatting to a style, not direct formatting Create/assign a character or paragraph style (e.g., DocProp-Label) to the Quick Part’s visible text. Avoid mixed direct formatting (bold/size applied manually) inside content controls. Stabilize the review surface Temporarily resolve/delete non‑essential comments and Accept/Reject tracked changes in the affected section. This reduces recomposition during merges. Reinsert the Quick Part cleanly In a new, plain document, recreate the building block and Save to the org template (.dotm/.dotx). Reinsert into the affected doc and test with one collaborator. Control field updates During heavy edits, avoid automatic field updates (e.g., on print). After review cleanup, select the section and press F9 to update fields once, then verify format persistence. Coauthoring‑specific mitigations Edit in Draft/Web Layout for large docs Less pagination recalculation → fewer layout resets during merges. Switch back to Print Layout for final checks. Limit nested structures Avoid Quick Parts inside tables, numbered items, or headers/footers while multiple people comment. Those containers amplify reflow. Break work into sections If a chapter has heavy comments + Quick Parts, split that section to a temporary working file, finalize, then paste back (Keep Text Only → re‑apply styles; reinsert Quick Parts last). Template hygiene Keep org Quick Parts in a central template (.dotm/.dotx) and ensure all collaborators load the same template version to prevent style drift.
To hide the file preview section in a SharePoint Document library gallery card with JSON
Hello All, I have a SharePoint document library and I created a gallery view for it. I displayed several columns/metadata on the gallery view. I want to disable/hide the file preview section in this card. I believe this can easily be done by changing some code in JSON at the Format view Advanced. However, I don't know how to do it. I hope there is someone, in this form, could be able to help me. Thanks in advanced.
