However I was unable to do the same in my other drives using the same method after I decided to change the location again and I now had redundant windowsapps folders I couldn't delete because I didn't have permission. I managed to delete the C: windowsapps folder using by giving my self system access in a file manager, admin level powershell commands and other third party programs. After the update I was able to change the installation location. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a Microsoft Agent or Microsoft Employee and that the phone number is an official Microsoft global customer service number.īefore the update I wasn't able to set the default app location anywhere apart from my small ssd C: drive. Learn how to collaborate with Office Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. Has anyone run into an issue like this? If so, how did you solve it so you were able to delete this folder.Keep in touch and stay productive with Teams and Officeeven when you're working remotely. I discovered this issue, when I tried to change the save location of Apps to the D Drive and I received an error (a rather generic one at that) I guess the last step would be to copy of the contents of the folder that I want to keep on there (about 1TB of games) over to my E: drive and format it, but I'd really rather not do that. I even created a new user account and took ownership using that account to no avail. I've tried taking ownership of the folder, took ownership of the root of the drive and giving myself Full Control, booting into safe mode.
I've rebooted numerous times to try to free up anything that might be accessing this folder. I should note that as far as I can tell, there is nothing accessing this folder. The error I get is attached to this post. No matter what I try, I get various errors and I can't delete it to free up all of that space. It is currently taking about 200 GB of space on my SSD and I want to get rid of it. I usually install games and some apps from the Windows Store onto this drive. I have the WindowsApps folder on my 😧 drive which is a 2TB SSD. I just did a Windows re-install and I am trying to do some cleaning up of my files and folders.
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