Windows 10: Error 0x80071129, The tag present in the reparse point buffer is invalid

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The error code 0x80071129 is one of many OneDrive errors that is recently experienced by multiple users on Windows 11/10 PC. To assist affected users, this post presents the most appropriate solutions to rapidly resolve this problem. It comes with the following error message: An unexpected error is keeping you from applying properties to the folder. […]

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for the logs. Apparently, the error relates to a folder on the following path: C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries

2019-09-23 17:51:40, Warning MIG Could not create object C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries [TV.library-ms]. Exception class Mig::SideAwareWin32Exception: Error while setting reparse point data: The data present in the reparse point
buffer is invalid. [0x00001128] Inner Exception: Win32Exception: Error setting reparse data.: The data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid. [0x00001128] void __cdecl Mig::CNativeFileUtils::SetReparseData(void *,unsigned long,const unsigned char
*)

2019-09-23 17:51:40, Info MIG Error 4392 during apply of object C:\Users\steve\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries [TV.library-ms]. Will ask shell application for resolution.

Do you remember changing any user profile directory or something else like a registry edit?

 

File History and reparse points.

It turns out that File History hasn't been keeping a history of my important files. Ever. The error events say that the various folders in my home directory are reparse points. For example, it complains that C:\Users\whn\Documents is a reparse point.
If I open that file's properties, it says that it is a folder, however there is a tab labeled Location which says "Files in the Documents folder are stored in the target location below." In the location below it says that the files are stored at "C:\Users\whn\Documents".
That is to say, the reparse point is a folder that is stored where the reparse point is. ??

This can't be good. And it can't be normal, else File History would not be working for anybody. Any suggestions on how to fix it? I guess I could, for each of Desktop, Documents, etc., move the contents to a temp dir, delete the self-referential
link, the rename the temp dir back to Desktop, Documents, etc... But that doesn't sound good.

So, I created a new user account, signed in, and discovered that it has the same pattern as my main account (desktop and documents are reparse points that refer to themselves). Which means it is normal for this version of Windows and that File History shouldn't
be working for anyone anywhere. How can that be?

A couple of points: This is Windows 10 Pro version 1803. This machine is four years old and was originally a Windows 8 machine that got the free upgrade to 10.

I hope you can help, thanks!