In Microsoft Teams, everyone in a team can open and edit every file in the team's standard channels, including General. That's fine when the whole team should see everything. If some files are only for some people, they need to live somewhere else.
Who can see what
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Where the file is
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Who can see and edit it
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General or another standard channel
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Everyone in the team
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A private channel
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Only the people added to that channel
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Your own OneDrive, shared with specific people
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Only the people you share it with
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Don't rely on folder permissions
Changing permissions on individual folders inside a team's files is easy to get wrong and hard to keep track of. If not everyone should see something, move it out of General.
Keep files to fewer people
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Create a private channel
Next to the team name, select More options (…) > Add channel, then choose Private. Depending on the team's settings, a team owner may need to do this.
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Add only the people who need it
Members of the team aren't added automatically.
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Move the files
Move the files out of General and into the private channel's Files tab.
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Get help
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