Windows 10: OneDrive access permissions

OneDrive Personal returns a notification that 5 files have not been uploaded because they do not have"access permission" and requests for me to correct the situation.Unfortunately I have no idea how to do this and I hope to learn from you the "how to..."Please and thank you

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OneDrive folder permissions - Fix


Found the problem.

While you are still listed as the owner of each subfolder in the OneDrive folder, some subfolders no longer have inherited permissions enabled.

If you Enable inheritance and OK for each affected subfolder in the OneDrive folder, it will no longer have any access issues or UAC prompts afterwards.

 

OneDrive -- No access permissions to the item

The Desktop folder is sync'd to OneDrive but I've noticed that there are a bunch of desktop shortcuts that not included.

These shortcuts have been added to C:\Users\Public\Desktop during the install and include shortcuts for MS Edge, Chrome, etc. etc.

So I tried to create a link or junction to this directory to sync to OneDrive:

mklink /j "%UserProfile%\OneDrive\Public Desktop" "C:\Users\Public\Desktop"

which worked just fine.

However, in OneDrive I now have a number of sync errors, all of which are:

Microsoft Edge.lnk
No access permissions to the item.
It appears that you do not have access permissions to the item. Ensure that you have the right permissions to allow the the item to sync.

I did try to give each shortcut read access to my UID via the Properties -> Security but that didn't work.

How can I fix this?

TIA...

 

Windows 10 - OneDrive

Right click on the app and one of the properties has an option to not automatically start it. Uncheck, restart the computer, and it should stop. If you want to go another step further, find the OneDrive app in the start menu, right click on it and uninstall.

If that is still insufficient, there is a batch uninstaller for OneDrive available online. I can copy the code here if you need it.