Windows 10: Unable to Delete a Folder

I tried various things including your suggestion which didnt work.

What did work however was this:

1. open elevated command prompt
2. type rd /s /q \path\to\folder

and this removes them. You may have to enable the hidden administrator account which you can do following this guide.

Now to reinstall OneDrive!

 

After clean installing 1803 I found that OneDrive was giving errors in Event Viewer so I decided to follow a guide which recommended uninstalling and reinstalling it. During install I decided to move the folder from c: to d:.

Unfortunately this has left all the files behind even though most of them were stored in the cloud. I have followed this tutorial and also tried command prompt in advanced boot but nothing allows me to delete it.

According to security I do have ownership.

:)

 

Unable to delete a folder

Hi,

Strangely, yesterday I can't even delete the folder Resolve but today it works with the rd command in dos. Windows suprise me all the time !

Thanks

 

Unable to delete a folder

Do you need its parent folder, C:\Users\Adrien\Videos\Resolve ? If not, have you tried deleting it?

 

I don't think you can completely uninstall it as it's integrated in just about everything much less move it....with out having some serious complications.

I don't use it....at all. Simply because MS givith and takith away gigs of space (long story). So I just disable/turn it off after every upgrade or clean install I do.

 

I do use OneDrive and having relocated it's folder, you'd think that you'd be able to delete the old one!

 

Give it a try with CCleaner (in tools), but you have 2 locations now... Run cmd lines so that it won't show up in Start nor in Explorer.
Explorer and Start menu. In the guess account, keys must be delete manually.
Code: REG Delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f[/quote] Code: REG Delete "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}" /f[/quote] Other method:
Code: taskkill /f /im OneDrive.exe[/quote] Code: %SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\OneDriveSetup.exe /uninstall[/quote] Revo Uninstaller Pro is probably the best option. Forced uninstall and browse the location in <<Full path to program file or folder>>. The only working area left would be changing its location. It is not possible to delete Onedrive nor any other MS apps.

They all have a cmd line to re-install them, they're just in a dormant state.

 

Thank you. Will give it a try after work.