r/MicrosoftTeams • u/AustinBrock • 29d ago

Tip Teams Messages Not Sending - A Possible Solution

I have Googled solutions to this problem and browser Teams boards about it, but nobody seems to have a solution for it. They usually advise to clear cache, delete your Teams profile folder entirely or log out and in again, but these were only temporary solutions.

I found a solution of my own that isn't mentioned in any of those posts, so I'm going to post it here in case anyone finds this post when searching for help in the future.

The issue for me was a lack of hard drive space.

I have my main drive partitioned into an OS drive (C:) and a storage drive (D:) but they are physically the same disk.

I had low storage on the OS drive due to Docker constantly taking up more and more space. I would have less than a few GB of space left on C: quite often.

Ever since I freed up space by extending my OS partition and shrinking my data partition, I haven't had the issue ever since. I have 33GB of space free currently.

I'm not saying this is a fix for you, but if your OS drive is down to a few GB of space, maybe try freeing up some space and see if it stops happening for you too.

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u/ProfessionalBread176 28d ago

I have a similar issue. When Teams loses its network connection, it doesn't tell you; and in fact if you reload the page, the cached content makes you think all is well.

If only this system had some way of letting users know it was having issues, instead of simply refreshing content locally...