Windows 10: OneDrive folder on second HDD gives 'location is not available' when trying to open after...

I had to re-install windows on my SSD because it wouldn't start anymore. After the installation, I had access to pretty much all my files on my secondary HDD except for my OneDrive folder. All my files are in this folder, which unfortunately didn't upload to the cloud for some time. I'm trying to access the files within this folder, but to no luck.


I get the following error: 'Location is not available The file cannot be accessed by the system.' And in the properties tab it says the folder is 0 bytes.


I have set the permissions correctly and confirmed the folder is not corrupted. How can I get access to the files in this folder?


Thank you!

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Problem with location of Pictures library after making pictures available on OneDrive

Thanks Rhina

I did what you suggested but it ended up making OneDrive the Pictures library. This may have something to do with the way i originally moved the Pictures folders to OneDrive. I probably should explain:

Because there already was a (fairly empty) Pictures folder under OneDrive (automatically set up I think when transferring a few Ipad photos to PC via OneDrive) I had moved the top level Pictures folders into D/users/myname/OneDrive rather than moving
the Pictures folder itself. This was probably a bit stupid but I subsequently moved the top level Pictures folders into that pre-existing Pictures folder on OneDrive and that's how we got to where we are today.

To continue after that diversion. Following the restore you suggested, the pictures folder under Libraries was still wrong but it looked a lot better ie it was no longer offering me a choice of locations for Pictures folders and, instead was just showing
me all the top level folders for what it (wrongly) thought was the Pictures folder. But it was still not appearing directly under This PC.

My next step was to go into Properties option for Libraries/Pictures. Here I simply added the correct location D/users/myname/OneDrive/pictures and deleted the location D/users/myname/OneDrive which at that time was the current location.

So, on the Positive side:

• Libraries/Pictures now shows what I would expect ie my top level Pictures folders

But, on the negative side:

• Pictures still does not appear under This PC, unlike Documents, Videos, Music etc
• in the Photos app, if I go to Folders option, it shows the folder as OneDrive, not OneDrive/Pictures even though, if i go into "choose where to look" it is correctly showing OneDrive/Pictures as the location. Obviously i can still get to the photos I need
  but it's an extra unnecessary step
  

That's where i am currently.

 

Trying to relocate Documents from a OneDrive location to a HDD location, but access is denied

I've set up a new PC, and having installed Win10 I plugged in my old HDD J: drive, and am trying to redirect the default Documents folder in the explorer This PC folder to the one on J:.

Every time I try, though, I get the message "Can't move the folder because there is a folder in the same location that can't be redirected. Access denied"

I think this is because the current location is C:\users\james\OneDrive\documents, and OneDrive is messing things up, can anyone tell me how to sort this out?

 

onedrive duplicating my folders...

Hi.

Again, onedrive is going crazy and is duplicating my main folder, full of subfolders. It's locking me out of all my files. I have windows 10, Office 365 home. I paused synch at the moment before I have 1000 copy of my folder, which I can't open anyway!
Please don't ask me any question that will further delay the repair. Simply give me a step by step solution and then improve onedrive so this won't happen again to so many of us. I suggest you also add "onedrive" in the list of "Windows Topics" below since
thousands of users have issues with it.

Thanks

Michel

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