"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
    2023-11-18T01:51:14+00:00

    Windows did an update on my pc, and what do you expect the whole onedrive settings are messed up again. They automaticly added all folders in documents again to onedrive. Onedrive filled up its 5 gb, and then once the 5gb is filled up, you cant deselect anything or make any changes. Really messed up

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-10-13T12:58:45+00:00

    Had exactly same problems, and am left with the same half-baked get-arounds.

    I don't know why we pay for this garbage. I suppose because the effort of changing to something new is too much to bear, even if it comes with only a fraction of the difficulties this presents.

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  3. Craig Long 18,630 Reputation points
    2023-10-06T23:02:26+00:00

    It certainly works differently now.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-10-06T10:43:37+00:00

    Has anyone found a workable solution to this yet?

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-09-12T03:54:28+00:00

    Thanks Ramon. And this only started happening in the last two weeks for you as well?

    The technician said moving the OneDrive folder out of Documents will solve the issue, but it still doesn't answer the question of why this only started recently.

    You could do that if you don't have a lot of linked files.

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