Windows 10: One drive preventing me from deleting some folders and files.

I recently logged into Onedrive for the first time. It spent forever uploading everything to the cloud. Since then, I have difficulty deleting most folders. Sometimes I can go into the folder and delete everything and then the folder but sometimes that doesn't work. It appears it is changing folders to read only and sometimes I can't change that. I assumed at the beginning this was because Onedrive was copying it. However now that everything is in sync, it still happens. Very painful. Is there a way to fix this to work in harmony with Ondrive? If not, how do I get rid of Onedrive? I

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Trouble deleting a folder

Thanks for the suggestion but it says "delete folder failed for E:\....." for each folder I try.

*Confused

Will I be forever stuck with these unnecessary folders? *Oh Well hwell:

 

C windows installer folder - Delete?

He can do symbolic link redirection and move the files in it to a different location. *Wink
Better try it out in a virtual of first. Just a suggestion.

Like:
First move everything in c:\windows\installer to d:\installercache
Then delete c:\windows\installer folder
Then type this in command mode as admin
mklink /d c:\windows\installer d:\installercache

Removing those installer files is a bad idea. it might prevent you from updating or uninstalling apps.

 

Unable to delete a folder - Invalid folder name


Suggestion:

1. Run chkdsk x: /r to make sure that there's no HD corruption.
   x: is the drive containing the folder you want to delete.
2. Try to delete the folder again. If still does not work, go to step 3.
3. Download: Download - Linux Mint and create a bootable USB using: Rufus - Create bootable USB
4. Boot up with Linux Mint and try to delete the folder again.
   NOTE: Unlike WinPE. Linux does not have any Windows permission imposed to it so it is easier to delete.