one drive error "your onedrive folder can't be created in the location you selected"

Anonymous
2019-11-19T10:19:58+00:00

I have this error "your onedrive folder can't be created in the location you selected" I had onedrive working fine on my computer for a long time then over the weekend it stopped working and now I have this error. I have tried the following

  1. Remove Onedrive and reinstall it.
  2. It works on other drives but I want all my Data on my Data drive
  3. I have trie downloading and installing OneDrive to the targeted drive, check if the OneDrive can recognize the drive as a right location. You can have a try to see the result, this I can do but it keeps coming up with the same error
  4. I have right clicked my targeted drive >  properties > Security > and checked that I have the Full control permission of the drive.
  5. Create a new test Windows user profile to see the result.

As the issue persists here is the information below:

  1. I attach a screenshot about the drive property showing the NTFS format and
  2. A screenshot about the error message.

Please let me know how I can fix this

Microsoft 365 and Office | OneDrive | For home | Windows

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-12-07T01:49:16+00:00

    Hi everyone,

    I've reached out to Office 365 support and they said they're aware of the issue and are working on a solution.  I'll post it here when i get something from them.

    Do we know when MS is going to sort this problem? I've tried everything without joy.

    I totally agree that Microsoft has taken a working and useful program and totally corrupted it.  This is typical with Microsoft products.  I've used One-drive for years and found it a great program but now it is totally useless since in don't have space on my C drive and need it to sync with my D drive.  

    MICROSOFT, why do you do these things?  Can you imagine Apple doing disgusting things like this?    Don't you bother to test these things?  Where is your pride in craftsmanship?  This is a pretty egregious error on your part as I suspect a large number of users need to use a non C drive to hold the data.  

    They have introduced the Personal Vault feature to put your important paper in but do does anyone TRUST Microsoft to do this?

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-11-29T10:21:34+00:00

    Hi everyone,

    I've reached out to Office 365 support and they said they're aware of the issue and are working on a solution.  I'll post it here when i get something from them.

    Do we know when MS is going to sort this problem? I've tried everything without joy.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-11-28T21:38:14+00:00

    Thanks.confirmed my suspicions.

    Only microsoft could take a good product and break it needlessly

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-11-27T12:21:33+00:00

    I had similar issue and now the matter is solved after creating new user profile on windows 10.

    I have created new profile on windows 10 and installed one drive. It is now working fine on the targeted data disk. So it looks like the user profile was got corrupted due to unknown reasons.

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