Clear Teams cache

Overview

Many problems encountered with Microsoft Teams that aren't resolved with a computer reboot, can be resolved by clearing the cache for the Teams application. 

This can resolve the following issues:

  • Your account showing as Appear Offline
  • This may help for the issue where chat notifications are not appearing on the Chat icon in the Teams menu.

Solution

  1. If Teams is still running, right-click the Teams icon in the taskbar, and then select Quit.
  2. Open the Run dialog box by pressing the Windows logo key + R
  3. In the Run dialog box, copy/paste:
    •  new Teams app: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe
    •  classic Teams app: %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams
  4. Delete all files and folders in the directory.
  5. Restart Teams.

Reference to Microsoft's KBA here

Details

Article ID: 8310
Created
Wed 1/24/24 11:56 AM
Modified
Thu 1/25/24 3:16 PM
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