FIle history stuck in "Restore in progress"

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casperinmd

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I have build a new pc, went to turn on File History and set it up and it began to restore from an old build. It is not restoring (and i don't need it too) but it is stuck. It won't turn off, or finish or fail. Been weeks now.

The location does exist, but regardless, I have deleted the files already.

Any clue on how to force it to be clean config w/o re-installing Windows?

tia
 

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@ casperinmd

Ya, this drove me nuts as just realized this problem on a brand new build and OEM 8.1. And I couldn't find anyone having a similar problem. I did some more googling around and came up with a place to look for the problem, as I figured it was some kind of configuration issue. BTW, this new build I did is only 3 weeks old, and have no idea how it happened.

Anyway, fwiw, I went in to:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\

and then deleted the files in that folder.

I'm not sure if it was needed, but I also went in to:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History

and deleted the filehistory files there. I have no idea why they were there as I had never previously started up file history before.

I rebooted and File History, after it searched for available drives, works fine.

I'm not saying go do this :), I'm saying what worked for me. Actually, I came back here and created an account today to pass this on, as it's lonely out there sometimes if you can't find an answer!

good luck,
 

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DansFiddling said:
@ casperinmd

Ya, this drove me nuts as just realized this problem on a brand new build and OEM 8.1. And I couldn't find anyone having a similar problem. I did some more googling around and came up with a place to look for the problem, as I figured it was some kind of configuration issue. BTW, this new build I did is only 3 weeks old, and have no idea how it happened.

Anyway, fwiw, I went in to:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\

and then deleted the files in that folder.

I'm not sure if it was needed, but I also went in to:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History

and deleted the filehistory files there. I have no idea why they were there as I had never previously started up file history before.

I rebooted and File History, after it searched for available drives, works fine.

I'm not saying go do this :), I'm saying what worked for me. Actually, I came back here and created an account today to pass this on, as it's lonely out there sometimes if you can't find an answer!

good luck,
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You nailed it DansFiddling

FWIW, I only deleted the config file (all I had) in the:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\

folder. Rebooted and it was ready to enable etc. Thanks a million for taking the time to register and reply, that is what makes forums so incredible, peeps like you!
 

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casperinmd said:
DansFiddling said:
@ casperinmd

Ya, this drove me nuts as just realized this problem on a brand new build and OEM 8.1. And I couldn't find anyone having a similar problem. I did some more googling around and came up with a place to look for the problem, as I figured it was some kind of configuration issue. BTW, this new build I did is only 3 weeks old, and have no idea how it happened.

Anyway, fwiw, I went in to:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\

and then deleted the files in that folder.

I'm not sure if it was needed, but I also went in to:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\History

and deleted the filehistory files there. I have no idea why they were there as I had never previously started up file history before.

I rebooted and File History, after it searched for available drives, works fine.

I'm not saying go do this :), I'm saying what worked for me. Actually, I came back here and created an account today to pass this on, as it's lonely out there sometimes if you can't find an answer!

good luck,
Click to expand...

You nailed it DansFiddling

FWIW, I only deleted the config file (all I had) in the:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\

folder. Rebooted and it was ready to enable etc. Thanks a million for taking the time to register and reply, that is what makes forums so incredible, peeps like you!
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Cool! Glad I could help.

Ya, kinda figured deleting the files in the "History" directory wasn't particularly necessary, but since I had never turned on File History before on that PC, I didn't care. If I did have File History working BEFORE this problem came up, I would NOT have deleted these files as now looking on another PC, looks like they are some kind of calendar indexing reference. Odd the history only goes back 2 weeks (as I have file history to save forever), but anyway...

So, my point is, I would start with deleting only the config file in:

c:\Users\<ME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\

and if someone contemplated deleting the files in \History, back them up first, just in case.

Onward :)
 

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