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The OneDrive Support team have told me to delete the following .lnk files as they are preventing a full sync. But they've also expressed caution:"Some applications may depend on these links to function properly. Remove only the links that you know are safe to modify".
I haven't a clue which are 'safe to modify'- can you help please?
[Original subject: . INK files]
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Hi again Taffy,
lnk files are basically the shortcuts (icons) you use to start the software you have installed on your PC
If those files are on your Desktop and you delete them, you would need to access those files from the Start Menu instead or add a shortcut to your Taskbar to access those
[I fear you're muddling things because of the fact that in the standard Windows 10 font, a capital I and a lower-case l are identical.
The files have an extension of .lnk.
The forum you posted in deals with the handwriting and drawing feature known asWindows Ink.]
The files that can't be synced are simply links (as the support staff told you), so there's no real need to keep them on OneDrive where they wouldn't work anyway. They are the files that contain the data needed to launch a program when you click on its icon, e.g. on your desktop. Can you see in the OneDrive status which folder these files live in? I suspect the desktop, if you're busy protecting your Known Folders.
Your screenshot doesn't show what options are available to you. You want to skip or ignore these files.
As I said yesterday, OneDrive Support has confirmed that these are definitely .lnk files - short for Links, not .1nk.
1. [I fear you're muddling things because of the fact that in the standard Windows 10 font, a capital I and a lower-case l are identical.
The files have an extension of .lnk.
2. The forum you posted in deals with the handwriting and drawing feature known asWindows Ink.]
3. The files that can't be synced are simply links (as the support staff told you), so there's no real need to keep them on OneDrive where they wouldn't work anyway. They are the files that contain the data needed to launch a program when you click on its icon, e.g. on your desktop.
4. Can you see in the OneDrive status which folder these files live in? I suspect the desktop, if you're busy protecting your Known Folders.
5. Your screenshot doesn't show what options are available to you. You want to skip or ignore these files.
1. thanks for this comment - I really didn't know it was 1nk not Ink.
2. The forum in which I posted seemed to be appropriate - I now realise it isn't.
3. I wasn't given the option of keeping them on One Drive or not. They just appeared when OneDrive was working away.
4. I'm not busy protecting my Known Folders - as I said in another thread, I'd never heard the phrase 'Known Folders' until you mentioned it there.
I can't see where they are kept - OneDrive was still busy syncing until I paused it just now. The only option it gives me is to resume syncing. It says "OneDrive is paused, Your files are not currently syncing. Tap or click here to resume syncing and keep your files up to date".
5. It won't let me take a Screen Print, presumably because OneDrive is paused.
I got OneDrive back by renewing my Office365 Home Personal a month earlier than I needed to. The support staff gave me a link to the latest OneDrive, but when I installed it, it just set off processing 13,500 changes - I wasn't given any options of what to select, it just went ahead. So you can see what a struggle it has been - I never even found out what caused OneDrive to vanish in the first place.
I've unmarked Dave's answer so he may wish to comment nut until I can get OneDrive to stop syncing 13.500 files, I'm going to continue to struggle, aren't I? ;0(
That'll do for me Dave. It might also explain why another two shortcuts on my desktop aren't working. I'll delete them straightaway. Many thanks, as ever. ;o)
