Extract from Streemview’s article, “Hidden Data in Slack Exports: The Enterprise Grid Workspace Problem.”
If your Slack discovery workflow relies on JSON exports, there is a material risk you are missing nearly half of the data population—without realizing it.
In Slack Enterprise Grid environments, a significant portion of message content does not live in the primary workspace at the root of the export. Instead, it is stored in sub-workspaces housed in a folder labeled “Teams.” That folder label is the source of considerable confusion—it has nothing to do with Microsoft Teams. It is simply how Slack structures Enterprise Grid sub-workspaces within the export archive. The data is there. The problem is that most eDiscovery tools that import and ingest Slack exports do not know to look for it.
If you’ve never asked why a Slack export contains a Teams folder—or assumed your processing tool handled it automatically—you may be overlooking massive volumes of content.
