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Cannot deselect onedrive folders

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I realize there are a bunch of topics related to onedrive, but I feel this is a slight variation that has not been addressed elsewhere.

I'm among those who have noticed ATI suddenly failing backups due to oddities with the onedrive folders.  So I deselected them from the backup plan, and somehow those folders are still causing the backup to fail.  I double-checked and triple-checked and there are no onedrive folders selected for backup, but the error message clearly shows that the backup keeps failing due to attempts to open the various onedrive folders for writing.

Any ideas as to what I can try next?  Apparently selecting/deselecting things from the "edit backup" screen does nothing.  Also, is there some global setting to just have the backup skip things that are inaccessible vs holding up the entire backup process?

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Gary, welcome to these User Forums.

Have you tried adding the OneDrive folders to the Exclusions for your backup task?

If excluding the folders doesn't help, then I would suggest trying the Clone settings option for your task, and pointing the cloned task to a new destination folder to see if that will make a successful backup.

If you are using the default OneDrive folder location then I would recommend moving this if this is an option for you, so that this path is not a part of any other Source data folder path.  I use a second partition for user data such as Dropbox, OneDrive etc to avoid this type of issue.