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Assigning Drive Letter to AppStacks and Writable Volumes Doesn’t Work

Assigning Drive Letter to AppStacks and Writable Volumes Doesn’t Work

Assigning drive letter to the AppStack/s or Writable volume fix few of the known issues. As example, assiging drive letter to Writable Volume fix the issue for Chrome extension. It also fix the issue with Microsoft OneDrive Syncing folder creation issue. The registry tweak VMware provided for the drive letter is not just assiging letters but also for hide those. The registry setting in HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\svdriver\Parameters, the parameter is called “DriveLetterSettings”. It’s a REG_DWORD key. By default this parameter is not…

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“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected” with VMware App Volumes Writable Volume

“Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected” with VMware App Volumes Writable Volume

In non-persistent environment with VMware App Volumes Writable Volume (or similar product), OneDrive fails to get configure Sync folder and through an error says “Your OneDrive folder can’t be created in the location you selected”. There are few ways to fix the issue. The first one is to assign a drive letter to the Writable Volume to fix it. But this is not the solution that everybody prefers due to security reasons. The end user can explore the drive, even…

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