Windows 10: Error: your onedrive folder cant be created in the location you have selected please choose...

Onedrive seemed to stop syncing on my PC and asked me to sign in again. When I do this and try to change the location of OneDrive to D: (C: is an SSD with OS and insufficient space), I get the above message. All drives are formatted as NTFS.


If I create a new OneDrive folder in C:/users, and then move it to D:, I can move it to D, but then still cannot link the new signed-in account to the new OneDrive folder without the above message.


Any advice? OneDrive seems to be working across my other PCs, it just one that causing the problem, but unfortunately its the one that gets used the most.


Thanks in advance

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Your OneDrive folder can't be created in the location you selected

Hi there

I want my onedrive on my data HDD. It's file system is NTFS. I had onedrive working perfectly on it up until a few days ago when it asked me to re-sign in, then when I tried to change location away from the default to this drive it came up with the error
message "Your OneDrive folder can't be created in the location you selected".

Any ideas on what's going on? It definitely was working on this drive last week and still has a onedrive folder there, just not syncing.

I've double checked in the drives properties that it is NTFS.

Tried reinstalling onedrive, tried restarting computer.

Thanks heaps

Dave

 

This PC leads to the OneDrive folder.

Hi Lance,

There are different factors as to why the default location of the documents and pictures folder on your computer is defaulting to OneDrive. One possible reason is that you setup OneDrive as the default save location of your files. For us to resolve your
concern, kindly follow the steps below:

• Open File Explorer and from the left-hand panel select the
  Documents folder from the list.
• After selecting the Documents folder, right click on it and select
  properties from the list.
• Select the Location tab, and click on the Restore Default button. (see screenshot below)
  
  
  
  
• Select OK and if prompted to create a folder at the default location, click on
  Yes.
• If you get a prompt to move all files from the old location to the new default location, click on
  Yes.

Once complete the folder properties windows will close by itself and folder should not be using the default location. Take note that these steps apply to the different folder in your computer.

We look forward to your response once you complete the steps.

 

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