Windows 10: File history error when adding a folder to backup list.

I setup file history on a friends PC today and it appears to be working with the default backup list.

His PC has a second hard drive in it that contains about 200 GB of photos, when I try and add this folder to the backup list I get an error 0x80070032.

Just to test I tried adding the folder to the exclude list and it allowed me to add it there without issue.

I removed it from the exclude list and tried again to add it to the backup list and got the same error message.

Any ideas of what to look for?


Thanks,

Ken

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Backup These Folders in File History

My Pictures and My Videos folders are inside the My Documents folder. In File History all three folders are listed in the Backup These Folders list. Does this mean that because of this, files in Pictures and Videos are backuped twice? Once when backing up
My Documents and once when backing up My Pictures and My Videos (included in My Documents)

 

Backup Options: Lists of Folders to backup or exclude

click on the folder then click the remove button that appears.

normally your libraries are automatically added to the "Backup these folders" list.

if you delete everything from this list, there will be nothing to back up, you could just turn it off under "backup using file history"

 

Unable to remove folders from File History backups

I have revisited this issue, having abandoned File History for Windows 7 Backup some time ago. It seems like my original issue with File History has been fixed.

Steps I took:

• Switch off File History in Metro Control Panel
• Click "More options"
• Click "Stop using this drive" (Control Panel shuts down at this point)
• Delete all files on backup drive
• Click "Add a drive" in File History in Metro Control Panel and choose your backup drive
• Turn off File History
• Click "More options"
• Remove all folders that aren't Libraries (one by one - tedious). Typically this will be everything except Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos, Camera Roll and Saved Pictures
• Click the back arrow
• Enable File History
• Click "More options"
• Click "Back up now"

File History will get busy backing up at this point, and "More options" will not load. However once the the backup has completed, "More options" will load, and all the non-library folders will not be re-added. Success!

Similar instructions were posted previously but they did not resolve the issue for me at the time. However, they do now, so it must have been updated.

I have found one important remaining issue: if all folders are removed from the backup, the libraries will be automatically re-added. This in itself is not an issue. What is an issue is that when the folders are automatically re-added, incremental backups
are disabled and every time a backup is run, a full copy of every library will be made and the backup drive space will be exhausted very quickly. This (new) issue needs to be fixed.