Windows 10: System Restore Failure AppxStaging 0x80070005

Just after installing the 1803 Feature Update, I did some updates to VS2017 which went rather badly wrong (I'll post about that one in aonther thread). So I though "Simples: Just do a System Restore".

Unfortunately I got:

Luckily a shift/restart from the power button on the login screen and system restore from "Advanced Options" did work.

:)

 

System Recovery Error and AppxStaging folder:

By performing a system configuration restore, I got the error 0x80070005 which translating from my language says more or not:

Error while restoring the directory from the recovery point.

Origin: AppxStaging

Destination: %ProgramFile%\WindowsApps

The problem is not so much the failure of the restoration, because I manually resolved the problem I had, but the fact that the recovery error has subtracted about 10 GB of free space, and subsequent attempts to recover them with integrated tools (automatic
maintenance and disk cleanup) didn't work.

So after deleting all recovery points and restarting the PC, checking the folder "System volume information" with the tool SpaceSniffer, I saw that there is the AppxStaging folder that occupies 19.5GB.

So I went to examine another 2 PCs I have at home, one with win8 and the other with win10, and neither of them has the AppxStaging folder in "C:\System Volume Information\SystemRestore".

So it's correct to think that the 10GB lost as a result of the error are used by this folder, which due to the error has not been deleted? Whereas it's not the first time I've got this error.

In this case I would try to delete it, hoping to be able to do it with ShapeSniffer, and then try to create a new restore point, and perform a recovery later, to see if deleting the folder also solves the problem, but I would first be sure that the 10GB lost
are actually those used by the AppxStaging folder, to avoid losing further space, without then knowing how to get it back.

Sorry for my English

 

System Restore Error: 0x80070005

How do I fix "system restore access denied, error 0x80070005"