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Greetings,
While developing an application that makes use of the Windows CldApi I have come to a situation where placeholder files/directories would become corrupt. Any attempt to work on them either through the Windows File Explorer or programmatically (via methods of the CldApi or Windows File api) results in the error message or exception (when doing this in code) : "The cloud file metadata is corrupt and unreadable", which seems to be Win32Error 363 - ERROR_CLOUD_FILE_METADATA_CORRUPT.
While I am still trying to find out what combination of events has lead to corrupting reparse data (I believe) I have not found a way to resolve the corruption, i.e. I cannot even delete the place holder files/folders under question.
I'd appreciate any pointers as to what mechanisms I could use to at least be able to delete the offending placeholders?
Regards,
Stefan
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Try to create a new same name file in a different directory. Then copy and paste the new file into the same directory as the problematic old.
Greetings, and thanks for your reply.
Indeed this seems to work for files; but it does not work for directories - i.e. copy/pasting a same-named directory does not have any effect.
Regards,
Stefan
Have you tried? Isn't a Directory a file? And There is a possible explanation for the error.
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This worked for me:
It seems like there is a file system filter that handles the cloud stuff which is not loaded when in safe mode, so you can safely remove the files there.