"System Restore failed to extract the file (...\OneDrive) from the restore point."

Anonymous
2018-07-12T16:47:23+00:00

Since updating to Windows 1803, system protection does not work.  Restore will not restore from the restore point created during the update.  Nor will it restore from any new restore point I create.  I get the message: 

System Restore did not complete successfully.  Your computer's system files and settings were not changed.

Details:

System Restore failed to extract the file (<the path on my system>\OneDrive) from the restore point.  An unspecified error occurred during the System Resotre. (0x8007018b)"

This is the same result if I attempt to restore to the point that the Windows 1803 upgrade occurred.  And if I attempt to restore to a point I created immediately after the upgrade.  And if I attempt to restore to a point created immediately before I attempt to restore to it.  In other words.  It is not possible for me to create a restore point and restore to it.

On the rare occasions when I attempted a restore in the past, it worked okay.

I tried this on another machine also recently updated to Windows 1803.  The restore point creation then restoration worked correctly.  The only obvious difference between the two is that the machine on which the restore worked had only a C:\ drive.  The machine on which the restore fails uses a restore point that covers two drives and the OneDrive file that cannot be recovered is on the non-C: drive.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-11-05T19:24:08+00:00

    It's such BS when so many people are saying that they have the same problem, not one MS techie has provided a clear cut solution or an explanation as to why the issue is occurring and when there will be a solution

    I agree.  We gazillion reports the malfunction continues.  I stopped trying!  In fact, I am removing my OneDrive for Business and switching to Google.  Linux, here I come!  Now I will just make system image files while I sleep....HDD are too inexpensive to continue wrestling with this BS

    Glad to get this off my chest. Nov 5, 2020.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-01-21T21:02:49+00:00

    This is a waste of time. The issue, which you perpetually ignore, ia that there are thousands of us who want to perform a system restore to a point already saved at some point in the past. We're not interested in future restore points. In my case, my laptop began to develop bugs after a MS update in early 2019. All I want to do is restore to the last restore point prior to that last update. That's ALL. I don't care about restore points today, tomorrow, next week or any other time in the future. I only want to find a solution for restoring to January 2019, just before that last MS update. Please, stop answering questions we are not asking.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-12-30T16:15:57+00:00

    Been monitoring this thread forever as I have this exact same problem Ox8007018b is the error. Short of reinstalling windows as a fresh install there clearly must not be a solution. That no one from Microsoft has addressed this either is deplorable.

    Yes, it is deplorable that Microsoft has not addressed this issue. No, reinstalling Windows does not solve anything. I am seeking to return to  prior backup point...nothing moving forward from now makes any difference. The issue occurred in the past, which can only be resolved by returning  to a prior restore point, before the issue occurred. No one seems to get this... 

    You saved me from doing what would been a fruitless re install. For that I thank you!

    I feel badly for all of us who are experiencing this critical Microsoft fail. A pity that Microsoft - with billions of dollars in the bank, and resources beyond our imaginations - cannot address this issue for its customers. Pathetic.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-12-29T00:51:46+00:00

    Since the error shows a file in the OneDrive folder, I logged out of OneDrive, created a restore point, and then tried to restore to that point.  However, I still get the same error.  Nothing in these posts is helping.  Microsoft??

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-12-08T04:36:34+00:00

    This is not a true solution to the problem. but I have found that to avoid this problem, I always make sure I have Quit OneDrive before creating a restore point.  If I do that, I have no problems later doing a restore.

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