Windows 10: Solved...Removal of Quick access and DnD

To anyone having this problem,

I'm not sure when it started, but all of a sudden I discovered that I did not have the ability to Drag and Drop a file from File Explorer's right pane to the left pane. I get the circle with line through it indicating that I can't do that. I can drag and drop a file within the right pane but not to the left pane. To move a file, I could only copy or cut and paste.

I wondered if some of the registry tweaks that I performed to clean up the Navigation Pane some days earlier might be causing the anomaly. I had followed Shawn's tutorials to remove Videos, Pictures and Music folders. I also removed HomeGroup and Quick Access. His instructions worked flawlessly.

To see if any of those tweaks was causing the DnD problem, I systematically reversed each one, one at a time. Here is my finding.

As soon as I restored Quick access my ability to Drag and Drop in File Explorer was restored! To verify my findings, I removed Quick access and lost my DnD again. Restored it a regained DnD again. I Hope this can help those who are having the DnD problem.



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Cannot unping wrong Download Folder from Quick Access

I moved all my User folders to a separate drive by doing the usual Properties on each one and changing the location. It worked like a treat except for most except Quick Access on Desktop and Downloads. Seems there is a bug there in Windows 10.

Anyway, I managed to get Quick Access to remove the errant folders by re-creating the previous folder locations and then simply deleting the folders.

Quick Access noticed and removed them.

Problem solved.

 

Quick Access - "Location is not available"

I solved the problem without following steps 1, 2, and 3. The solution is stupidly simple and it doesn't make any difference as to whether the problem item in the Quick Access list is pinned or unpinned.

1. Create the folder in the same path where Quick Access reported it to be unlocatable. The folder will be empty.

2. Delete the folder you just created. The Quick Access item that WAS listed in Quick Access disappears!!

Note that #2 does not remove or delete the item from Quick Access. It deletes the empty folder you just created *from the machine* (i.e., it goes to the Recycle bin) and as a consequence of the deletion, it disappears from the Quick Access list.

 

I do prefer the old Favourites over Quick Access.