The Microsoft Teams app aside from being able to hold video meetings, has other features that can be used if you have an account for the service. The vast majority of other features that Microsoft Teams offers are related to features of other things that Microsoft has developed.
This time we are going to talk about the files that are sent through Microsoft Teams, but only something related to the sending of the files will be mentioned. In short, we will show you how to locate files in Microsoft Teams , how to search for these kinds of files, how to recover your lost files, and more.
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- How to easily locate your files in Teams?
- recent documents
- cloud files
- How to find all your files on the Teams platform?
- From iOS
- with Android
- What to do to recover lost files in Teams?
- of a channel
- with OneDrive
How to easily locate your files in Teams?
The files that you send through Microsoft Teams or those that you receive, are always located in at least 2 specific places. If you want to quickly locate the latest files that have been sent to you, you should check the recent documents or else search within the cloud files.
recent documents
Recent Documents is a section where Microsoft Teams puts all the files that have been sent to you recently. Pay attention to how this section is accessed within Microsoft Teams:
- turn on your device
- Sign in to your Microsoft Teams account
- Enter where it says ‘File’
- Then, select the ‘Help’ option
- Then select ‘Options’
- Finally, press where it says ‘Advanced’ and select ‘Show the number of the most recent documents’
That way your recent files are located within Microsoft Teams from the ‘Recent Documents’ section. In case you didn’t know, Microsoft has released an update for the Teams program used on computers. If you want to keep the program updated, it is best to learn how it is updated .
Now, sometimes the files you’re looking for can’t be found by doing the above process. When this happens to you, you will have to pick it up directly from the chat in which it was sent to you. It should be noted that, when you find the file you are looking for, you can delete it to free up space.
cloud files
The other place where you can find your Teams files is by accessing the ‘Files within the cloud’. To enter this place, you must do the following:
- Turn on your device.
- Sign in to the Teams app.
- Log in.
- In the initial tab open a channel or rather a ‘Chat’.
- To finish, press where it says ‘Files’ and you will see all the files that person has sent you.
It is important that you know that, if you do not have the Teams application or program, you can also search for the files that have been sent to you by accessing your account from the Teams website . From the Teams website you can take full control of the account, since it allows you to do many things.
How to find all your files on the Teams platform?
You’ve seen how to search for files in Teams before , but those processes were mostly computer-oriented. Now, we are going to explain how to get your files within Teams from mobile devices with Android and iOS operating systems.
From iOS
In the case of iPhone mobile phones, the easiest way to get each of the files that have been sent to you from Teams is by accessing your OneDrive account . See what you have to do exactly:
- Start your iPhone cell phone
- Enter the OneDrive App or else on the OneDrive website
- Then go straight to ‘More Libraries’
- There you will choose the library in which the Teams files are saved and voila, that would be it
You should keep in mind that sometimes the place where all the libraries are shown will not give you the one related to Teams. When this happens to you, you just have to press the ‘More libraries’ option and you will see the complete list of them.
with Android
For devices with Android system, it remains to repeat the same process explained above which applies to iPhone. The process from before still works for Android because OneDrive for mobile phones have no differences between them, whether the mobile has Android or iOS.
What to do to recover lost files in Teams?
When finding the files within Teams if you are interested in recovering them, you would have to make use of at least one channel or else the OneDrive.
of a channel
Channels are like, so to speak, conversations within Teams . To retrieve your files from this location, all you have to do is enter the channel where the file is. Then, press the ‘Files’ option, select the file you want to obtain and press where it says ‘Download’.
with OneDrive
From OneDrive, all you have to do is access the library where Teams files are stored, locate the specific file, select it, and proceed to download it.