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ReinoutVrijhoef
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Aug 30, 2023

Teams can't login after second restart app | MacOS

Dear all,

Since a few days I have a strange bug in Microsoft Teams (version 1.6.00.22155 and 1.6.00.17554) on MacOS (Ventura 13.4). I work in a school, so we have a "corporate" Office365 account with 2-factor authentication through the authenticator app on my phone. Here is the issue:

- I deleted the entire Teams folder in Application Support

- I also removed all entries with "Teams" in them for the Keychain in MacOS, disabled SIP for this

- I installed the latest (and previous) version of Teams

- I login with the usual method, this is okay

- I quit and restart Teams, all is well and good

- I quit and restart Teams again, now I'm in a death-loop. I get error code 3000 (nothing to find online on this code) and a button to restart or logout. These buttons, and the rest of the app, are unresponsive and Teams keeps on rebooting itself. I can only interrupt this by force-quitting the app a few times

- When I delete the Teams folder in Application Support, I can login again and use the app for two instances. After this, the same misery.

I hope someone can shed some light here. This is costing me too much time at the moment (the start of the college period is very busy), so any help is greatly appreciated!

  • Bazzoro's avatar
    Bazzoro
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    ReinoutVrijhoef 

    I had the exact same issue with two of my users. Tried all the same actions with no avail. Now with the 'New Teams' the issue is gone for both users. Hope this also fixes it for you and the other people following this thread.

    • ReinoutVrijhoef's avatar
      ReinoutVrijhoef
      Copper Contributor
      Thank you for this tip! Unfortunately, the new version of Teams isn't supported by our administrators, I will ask them why this is...
  • PatBreen's avatar
    PatBreen
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    My boss's boss encountered this today, here's how I fixed it:

    1) Deleted Teams from Terminal: sudo rm -rf /Applications/Microsoft\ Teams.app
    2) Deleted Teams' Application Support folder (using finder, but Terminal works too): ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams
    3) Reinstalled Teams, issue seemingly resolved!

    You can also probably use this to remove Teams, but I didn't think to at the time: https://office-reset.com/
    • Hen33405's avatar
      Hen33405
      Copper Contributor
      I have created a second account on my Mac and did not had any problems with Teams using this second account.
      So I concluded it is a local account registration problem !!

      I have searched for local settings of Teams and I found:
      ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.teams

      So I added this directory to the "to delete list" you described here.
      /bin/rm -rf ~/Library/Cache/com.microsoft.teams

      It looks like the problems are gone.
    • ReinoutVrijhoef's avatar
      ReinoutVrijhoef
      Copper Contributor
      Thank you for your contribution. This is not a permanent solution, but indeed the quick fix I described in the first post. Thanks for mentioning this app, it seems to do the same as manually removing the files.
    • Hen33405's avatar
      Hen33405
      Copper Contributor

      PatBreen Thanks for your message.

      What you suggest works but after a while the same error appears again. 

      So it is not a complete solution.

       

      Hendri Hondorp 

  • Hen33405's avatar
    Hen33405
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    ReinoutVrijhoef I have the same issues. Also Error 3000.

    Only old versions of Teams do not have this problem.  The Teams Preview versions (at this moment) do have the same problem.

     

    • ReinoutVrijhoef's avatar
      ReinoutVrijhoef
      Copper Contributor
      Is there any older version available for download at the moment, as far as you know?
      • Hen33405's avatar
        Hen33405
        Copper Contributor

        ReinoutVrijhoef I have found some old versions of Teams with Google, but after a few days Microsoft updates it automatically to the newest version 😞

  • What i would suggest is to clean the app with a addon that firmly cleans the mac.
    But first check if teams still works in the browser?
    • ReinoutVrijhoef's avatar
      ReinoutVrijhoef
      Copper Contributor

      Paul_Keijzers thank you for your reply. Yes, Teams in a browser (Chrome) works okay, as it does in the app. Which (free?) cleaner do you recommend?

       

      Edit: I downloaded CleanMyMacX and removed the app twice. I also used the option to re-initialise Teams. Nothing worked, too bad.

      • Paul_Keijzers's avatar
        Paul_Keijzers
        MVP
        I use macclearner other question is the mac secured by your organisation?
        If nothing else works there are 2 things you can do. Create a ticket at MS.

        Create a new profile on the mac and try to reinstall all.

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