Undeletable Folder (After moving to other location)

[FrankSeven]

Hello, it's been a while.

Okay, so I decided to move my Documents from C:\Users\user\ (SSD, System Drive) to D:\Users\user\ (HDD) using Location Tab in Properties method, it was working fine and well but when I tried to move my Music folder, it's "broken". At first, it was working well, however, the 'Music' icon in the Quick Access became a regular folder icon, and when I clicked on it, it gave me "Location is not available - Access is denied." I checked in my C:\ user folder and the Music folder was there with the regular folder icon. I tried to delete it but with no luck. After restoring the location of the Music folder back to C:\ drive, it became even worse. The undeletable Music folder is still on the D:\ drive (but the "music" icon in the Quick Access is fixed). I already tried restarting my computer and even tried elevated cmd on it with "del" command, but it's still there. I really want to save more space on my C:\ drive. Has anyone experienced this issue before?

 

[USAFRet]

How did you 'move' these?
There is only one supported method (2 in Win 10).

The Location tab in Properties for that folder, or Settings/System/Storage.

 

[FrankSeven]

I moved those user folders with Location Tab in Properties method. Sorry, I should have added that one.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

The specialized folders in Windows are considered 'libraries' and not regular folders but instead are special files/folders (Music/Downloads/Pictures/Videos/Documents) - as such they're held open by some of the windows processes and cannot be moved like a regular folder.

Here's a great article on how it should be possible (win7/8 specific, probably also applies to win 10).

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079571/move-your-libraries-to-a-second-drive-or-partition.html

 

[USAFRet]

The specialized folders in Windows are considered 'libraries' and not regular folders but instead are special files/folders (Music/Downloads/Pictures/Videos/Documents) - as such they're held open by some of the windows processes and cannot be moved like a regular folder.

Here's a great article on how it should be possible (win7/8 specific, probably also applies to win 10).

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2079571/move-your-libraries-to-a-second-drive-or-partition.html

Doing this in 8.1 & 10 is significantly different than 7 & 8.

Here-
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

 

[USAFRet]

I moved those user folders with Location Tab in Properties method. Sorry, I should have added that one.

In Win 10, Settings/System/Storage...what does it say for Music?

 

[Colif]

Once again I question why they have 2 ways to direct library locations. I have moved all my library locations off c and yet the settings/system/storage thing shows them all as being saved to c. Does it even do anything? I wouldn't mind if they were linked together and showed same locations and let you change it in both places, but that doesn't seem the case. Using the system menu option just assigns the entire drive, you can't select individual folders unless I am blind.

The way he tried to move the folder should have worked as thats how I did it...

 

[FrankSeven]

I moved those user folders with Location Tab in Properties method. Sorry, I should have added that one.

In Win 10, Settings/System/Storage...what does it say for Music?

It says "This PC (C: )". Probably because I restored the Music location back to C: with Location Tab in Properties method. Everything is fixed, except for the undeletable folder with the same name that's still on the D: drive.

 

[USAFRet]

I moved those user folders with Location Tab in Properties method. Sorry, I should have added that one.

In Win 10, Settings/System/Storage...what does it say for Music?

It says "This PC (C: )". Probably because I restored the Music location back to C: with Location Tab in Properties method. Everything is fixed, except for the undeletable folder with the same name that's still on the D: drive.

Possibly something with the ownership of that folder.
Do you get any error message trying to delete it?
Have you rebooted after trying to delete it?

 

[FrankSeven]

Once again I question why they have 2 ways to direct library locations. I have moved all my library locations off c and yet the settings/system/storage thing shows them all as being saved to c. Does it even do anything? I wouldn't mind if they were linked together and showed same locations and let you change it in both places, but that doesn't seem the case. Using the system menu option just assigns the entire drive, you can't select individual folders unless I am blind.

The way he tried to move the folder should have worked as that's how I did it...

I don't know what went wrong. When I moved my Music folder to D: with the old method (location tab), it was working fine including my music files, but the Music icon in the Quick Access showed a plain regular folder icon (which got me a bit annoyed). I tried to unpin it but it didn't do anything (even the new location - pinning it did not work) and clicking it gave me an error message stating that the folder location is not available. Trying to delete did not work as I need an administrator's permission (in an administrator account). What's more annoying is that after I restored the Music location back to C: which fixed the Quick Access icon issue, the undeletable Music folder with plain folder icon is still on D:. I'm just having a bit of "OCD" because of it, that's why I need a solution to delete the undeletable Music folder in the D:.

 

[FrankSeven]

I moved those user folders with Location Tab in Properties method. Sorry, I should have added that one.

In Win 10, Settings/System/Storage...what does it say for Music?

It says "This PC (C: )". Probably because I restored the Music location back to C: with Location Tab in Properties method. Everything is fixed, except for the undeletable folder with the same name that's still on the D: drive.

Possibly something with the ownership of that folder.
Do you get any error message trying to delete it?
Have you rebooted after trying to delete it?

I cannot delete it because I need administration's permissions (even though my account is an administrator). For more information, I tried to open an undeletable folder, but it gave me an error message instead, stating "Location is not available - D:\Users\user\Music is not accessible. Access is denied."

 

[Colif]

its cause windows has multiple owners, you don't get access to everything as some of its locked off to stop you damaging it accidentally. the user folders are one of those locations.

you don't want full access, windows won't work if one person is owner of all files (as seen here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3076549/set-owner-full-access-file.html)

 

[USAFRet]

I moved those user folders with Location Tab in Properties method. Sorry, I should have added that one.

In Win 10, Settings/System/Storage...what does it say for Music?

It says "This PC (C: )". Probably because I restored the Music location back to C: with Location Tab in Properties method. Everything is fixed, except for the undeletable folder with the same name that's still on the D: drive.

Possibly something with the ownership of that folder.
Do you get any error message trying to delete it?
Have you rebooted after trying to delete it?

I cannot delete it because I need administration's permissions (even though my account is an administrator). For more information, I tried to open an undeletable folder, but it gave me an error message instead, stating "Location is not available - D:\Users\user\Music is not accessible. Access is denied."

Try it with:
cmd - Run as administrator (this has more privilege than your account as admin)

 

[FrankSeven]

I moved those user folders with Location Tab in Properties method. Sorry, I should have added that one.

In Win 10, Settings/System/Storage...what does it say for Music?

It says "This PC (C: )". Probably because I restored the Music location back to C: with Location Tab in Properties method. Everything is fixed, except for the undeletable folder with the same name that's still on the D: drive.

Possibly something with the ownership of that folder.
Do you get any error message trying to delete it?
Have you rebooted after trying to delete it?

I cannot delete it because I need administration's permissions (even though my account is an administrator). For more information, I tried to open an undeletable folder, but it gave me an error message instead, stating "Location is not available - D:\Users\user\Music is not accessible. Access is denied."

Try it with:
cmd - Run as administrator (this has more privilege than your account as admin)

That's what I did, no luck. It doesn't even give me a confirmation message.

 

[FrankSeven]

its cause windows has multiple owners, you don't get access to everything as some of its locked off to stop you damaging it accidentally. the user folders are one of those locations.

you don't want full access, windows won't work if one person is owner of all files (as seen here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3076549/set-owner-full-access-file.html)

Yeah, I'm aware that Windows have multiple owners. I guess I'll have to do the CMD during Windows Installation, hopefully, that annoying folder will be deleted successfully.

 

[FrankSeven]

Okay, it looks like the 'undeletable' Music folder becomes accessible and deletable after many hours of leaving the computer off. I guess I have to be more patient with the way my computer handles this kind of issue. Sorry for the waste, but thank you all for the answers!