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Each user has a private files area for uploading and managing a set of files. If enabled by the administrator, users can also email files to their private files area.

The private files area can be accessed from the Navigation drawer in the Boost theme or the My private files block . If the private files repository is enabled by a site admin, it is available as a source within the filepicker when selecting files to use in a course.

To add a file to your private files area

When in list view, it is possible to select and bulk delete private files, rather than removing them individually.

If a file is uploaded into your private files area, it is possible when using it elsewhere on Moodle to select it as an alias/shortcut. This means that if you update the file in your private files area, it will automatically update elsewhere on Moodle.

See Working with files for more information.

The size limit for each user's private files area is set by a site administrator in 'Private files space' (userquota) in Site administration > Security > Site security settings .

Non-admin users such as students and teachers see a message informing them how much space they have used when they upload a file to their Private files

See the discussion: How do you check space used by Private files? to see how, as an admin you can see private files usage on your site.

If you don't wish to use private files on your site, you can prevent access as follows:

If you want teachers to be able to access private files but not students, then in addition to the above steps

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Hi KMJU,

Thanks for reaching out! I’m Regie S an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft Teams user like you.

based on my experience, if you will upload a file on a private channel, only the member of the private can access the file.

can you confirm if you follow these steps,

Go to the private channel > click files beside post > the choose upload
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Hi KMJU,

May I know if the issue was present for both the Team owner and Team member?

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Hi KMJU,

I'm sorry I've run out of ideas, let's hear suggestions from other independent advisors,

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Hello, I am Celso a member of the Microsoft community and a user like you. How can I help you today?

Unfortunately, this security feature is currently not yet available.

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Nope, can't be removed, I wish it was an option to do so or at least redirect them.

As for ideas. I would move my existing sites into the Teams SharePoint site, but seems that isn't an option for you so your best bet would be to make use of the "Cloud Storage" option. This will basically add a folder to your File tab that essentially is a virtual folder to your other library. So this is a good way to link another library into the existing tab.

The negative with this approach or any other approach in Teams is it has to be done per channel. So I usually do it in the general channel and people just know that's where they go to use the "Document Repository". They still use their channel files tabs, and I encourage it for collab. Then inform them to pop out to "Open in SharePoint" and use Move to. And move the files to the repository from there. Or they can use Teams as well if version history isn't needed.

Hopefully at some point MIcrosoft releases the Files tab replacement so it goes straight to SharePoint so the MoveTo command is accessible from within Teams.

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