"The folder you tried to unselect contains the windows documents folder, which is an important folder in windows and is currently pointed to Onedrive"

Anonymous
2023-09-06T05:02:28+00:00

When I try to unsync any folder, this error message appears:

"The folder you tried to unselect contains the windows documents folder, which is an important folder in windows and is currently pointed to Onedrive"

This is a new thing that started happening over the weekend, as I use OneDrive on a daily basis.

Rebuilding all the folders and subdirectories are not an option since they are time-consuming and there is not enough space on my local drive (which is why I am using OneDrive and turning folders on and off).

Microsoft, please sort this out.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-04-02T08:37:33+00:00

    "Microsoft fired the Quality Control Department and is now making the customer quality control. If I am right I am lodging a complaint. I do not have time to be constantly fixing Windows!!!"

    That is precisely my complaint as well. Microsoft can't be bothered to hire decent engineers and product managers and now they're asking customers to do their jobs for free on our own time.

    Microsoft - you need to show us an employment contract and paycheque as a software engineer/product manager first before asking us to fix your deficiencies.

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  2. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2024-04-02T07:29:05+00:00

    You can't uncheck the Documents, Desktop, Pictures, Music, and Videos folders at Choose folders. When you try to uncheck it you get a notification that seems incorrect to me also.

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  3. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2024-01-30T21:55:44+00:00

    My actual problem was that I wanted to not sync the desktop folder.

    Your solution worked perfectly!

    Thank you!

    You're welcome!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-30T18:52:31+00:00

    My actual problem was that I wanted to not sync the desktop folder.

    Your solution worked perfectly!

    Thank you!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-30T03:38:28+00:00

    I think Microsoft is taking a page from Apple, but unlike Apple, they have these guys and gals that will respond to you like they took their first class in computers a week ago.

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