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Yep, you're reading this after 2020!

Somehow in my user folder I have a folder titled "Old Onedrive" which is actually C:/Users/<name>/Skydrive. I want to delete it because it's 3.5GB of wasted space.

My user account can't delete it, move it, change permissions or anything! Failure to delete folder

The permission entries show:

Type Principal Access
Allow Edward ([email protected]) Read & Execute

The account I am logged in with is the same "Edward ([email protected])" address.

Here is the permissions view. enter image description here

I've tried

>icacls SkyDrive /reset
SkyDrive: Access is denied.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files

But that didn't work.

Further steps tried: Advanced Security Settings > Owner > Change (From PC\Adminstrator -> Edward ([email protected]) which helped me to the answer

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  • If this stands alone (so deletion does not affect anything else) try Unlocker 1.9.2 (Majorgeeks)
    – anon
    Commented Jul 20, 2021 at 16:58
  • Who currently is assigned as the owner of the folder? Your local account linked to a Microsoft Account based on the permissions in the screenshot do not have the permissions necessary to delete the folder. Please edit your question to include this necessary information
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jul 20, 2021 at 17:36
  • Added under: The Permissions entries and I have tried changing the owner, which was successful, regardless of whether I changed it to Administrator (Which my account has those priveledges) or whether I explicitly set the owner to my account name
    – EdL
    Commented Jul 21, 2021 at 7:59

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By changing the owner under Advanced Security settings: Advanced security settings, change owner dialog

Then reopening the Properties > Security

Changing object permissions after changing owner

It is now possible to delete the directory correctly

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