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There are two folders I have that are both subfolders in two seperate directories. I needed to delete both of their parent directories and what I found was that everything except those two folders were deleted. When I try to delete them, I keep getting an error saying "the tag present in the reparse buffer point is invalid". (In the OneDrive desktop if that helps)

I have tried a number of ways to get past this. I tried using the rm -force command in powershell (kept saying doesn't have access to the cloud file), the del command in command prompt, running chkdsk (also, ever since this happened my PC has been running chkdsk on startup every time), booting up in safe mode, and deleting them in OneDrive live to see if my desktop would sync that way (onedrive live successfully deleted them, but they aren't getting deleted on my PC).

Another strange thing is that the file names are the same and keep changing despite having nothing to do with each other. They are both named pIFgTVfE but weren't originally called that, and I couldn't find any pattern to when they both simultaneously change-- they just do.

I am really confused about this and am worried that something might be wrong with my SSD.

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    Check out Windows Repair [freeware version is sufficient] which has a reparse point 'fixer'.
    – Tetsujin
    Oct 27, 2020 at 16:21
  • @Tetsujin For some reason, windows repair couldn't find any problems with reparse points in those folders
    – Sceptual
    Oct 27, 2020 at 17:00
  • Interesting, if irritating :\ Did you do the full 'pre-amble'… clean, safe boot etc that it recommends? [I don't really think it would make any practical difference for reparse points, but it's worth following each of its panels exactly as it says, just in case] It might also be worth pushing through the rest of the tests/fixes, though that can take some time to do all of it. It's not any kind of 'go faster' tool, it's just a 'make everything work as it should' so it will never break anything.
    – Tetsujin
    Oct 27, 2020 at 17:25
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    @Tetsujin yeah I did that, but it still didn't work. However, when I ran the full scan, it finally let me delete the files. I have no idea why the error want identified as a reparse point error, but hey, it got fixed somehow. Also it stopped checking the disk on startup as well.
    – Sceptual
    Oct 27, 2020 at 17:42
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linking to my recent answer on a related question. It may help anyone who stumbles upon this issue and doesn't want a specific tool to solve the problem: Link to another Answer on SuperUser about this issue

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