Unable to change drive where new apps will save to.

Anonymous
2019-08-26T01:14:03+00:00

I recently reset my windows 10 pc, forgot to delete or uninstall old apps from my hdd, now when i try to change where new apps wil save i get the following message "Delete other apps?: This drive has apps from another device. To use this drive, the other apps must first be deletted. Do you want to continue?" After select yes i get the error message: We couldn't save your default save location: The operation did not complete succesfully. Try again in a bit. The error code is 0x8007003". I can't delete the folder by myself. Any idea how could i fix this.

Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous
2020-02-29T00:45:07+00:00

so to anyone this might help if you had an issue with not wanting to install games on your main drive and you have a separate hdd that already has files on it that you do not  want to format it i tried so many things and possibly the easiest solution that i did i didn't  think this would work.

if your windows app folder is sitting on the main page of your hdd  just create a new folder call it whatever you want or it may be related to the fact this may have been where the windows store made a folder for my games it installed as well it was just called games

im pretty sure i made it but cant remember  but besides the point  literally just move the windows apps folder inside that folder then go to your setting to where you change where apps are installed and choose the new drive and hit yes when asked to delete and it worked!

hope this helps someone out there!

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-06T05:36:52+00:00

    I love you

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-28T01:10:50+00:00

    I was finally able to to take full control and delete my WindowsApps.old folder today. Here's how:

    1. Right-click the folder, security tab, advanced, and remove all entries except "TrustedInstaller" and "Administrator" , apply, and OK.
    2. Go back into advanced security, click "add", "select a principal".

    3. Under "Enter the object name to select" enter login email and click "check names" then ok.

    4. Give yourself full control, then ok.

    5. Now check the replace all child object permissions entries and finally ok.

    1. Delete folder.

    My WindowsApps.old originates from my previous laptop after having to reinstall Windows to fix a boot issue and setting up my secondary drive again. I couldn't delete it using my previous laptop due to similar permission issues so I had to rename it, though like I said before, I had control over the folder itself but not the subfolders within. Step 3 may be different if you use a local account and not a email to login. If that doesn't work then I don't what will.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-27T22:38:19+00:00

    yeah because ur windows has changed, your "new" pc does not have permission to touch these filesmicrosoft is having a hard time providing a fix to the issue:https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/unable-to-change-drive-where-new-apps-will-save-to/5bf3adc7-15c5-4d68-ba29-b9077f1181ea

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-27T17:38:42+00:00

    Yeah, I tried that but it still doesn't work, I recently had to re-install windows and maybe that is the reason why but I'm stuck.

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