# Where your files really live

OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams are one place wearing three coats.

7 screens, about three minutes. Pictures, almost no words.

## Your file.

*Picture: One large box with the words your file inside it.*

You saved it somewhere. Where?

## Not on your laptop.

*Picture: A laptop on the left, an arrow to the right with a small amber square travelling along it, and a large box labelled one store.*

It went to a building you will never visit.

## Three doors, one store.

*Picture: Three boxes on the left labelled OneDrive, SharePoint and Teams, each with an arrow into one large box labelled one store.*

They look like three places. They are one.

## The door decides who else gets in.

*Picture: The same three doors, each with a small grey label underneath: just you, a team, the team.*

That is the only real difference.

## Teams keeps nothing.

*Picture: The Teams door drawn in amber, with a dashed amber arrow running up from its arrow to the SharePoint one.*

A file you put in a channel is in that team’s SharePoint.

## Do today

Open a file from a Teams channel, then find the same file in SharePoint.

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