Windows 7 error: Location is not available or Item not found
I'm using windows 7 ultimate. I have a directory on a 1TB external usb drive called "1976 T.N.T". I am neither able to access this directory nor am I able to delete it. When I double click to access it windows says - Message Title: "Location is not available" Message Text: J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ACDC\1976 T.N.T refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive on this computer.or on a network. Check to make sure that the disk is properly inserted, or that you are connected to the Internet or your network and then try again. If it still cannot be located the information might have been moved to a different location. When I try to delete it windows says - Message Title: Item Not Found Message Text: Could not find this item. This item is no longer located in J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ACDC. Verify the item's location and try again. I have tried the following - 1. Deleting file using command prompt but that doesn't work 2. Check disk with both options "File system errors" and "Bad sector recovery" selected - it does not report any errors and the problem persists 3. Rebooting the computer 4. Disconnecting the drive and connecting it to my xp pro laptop (messages on xp are slightly different but to the same effect) Any suggestions short of formatting the drive will be appreciated.
June 23rd, 2010 3:01am

Wow! I aparantly fixed it 2 mins after posting this question. Here is what I did in case it can help someone else. I created another directory in J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ACDC with the same name as the problem directory in my case 1976 T.N.T. (I just tried it and it worked. I actually saw two directories with the same name and different creation dates) Then I backed out one directory to J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ in windows explorer Then I deleted the parent directory i.e. J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ACDC ... and to my utter disbelief it actually got deleted.
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June 23rd, 2010 3:09am

I had the same issue as it was stopping winrar from working, I tried to unistall and install winrar but still would not work. I found this thread, tried it, and to my surprise "It worked as well". Thanks
July 5th, 2010 5:53am

I had a similar issue. In my case, when trying to Add a location to one library, I received the "Location is not available" error for a completely different library where I had moved a subfolder (not a top-level location defined in the library, but a subfolder). Then I realized Libraries was probably pointing to that subfolder as the last location I had open in a previous session. BTW, this was not the default save location. I had to temporarily create another subfolder with the same name to get Add Location working again. Windows 7 Libraries are a good feature, but they seem to be a work in progress. As we can see, Libraries are sometimes broken by making changes in Windows Explorer even though they're are supposed to monitor Windows Explorer activity. This is a bug. Also basic functionality seems to be missing, such as the ability to sort the added locations or include network shares (which I understand can be done in Win 7 Enterprise, but sadly may have been left crippled in other editions on purpose). Some workarounds for the latter are available on the Internet.
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July 19th, 2010 3:16pm

I have spent the morning and most of the afternoon on every site I could find to fix the dreaded "verify item's location . . ." then I came upon the M.Glenn solution of creating an exact duplicate of the offending folder and then deleting the parent. WOW! Thanks
March 10th, 2011 10:58pm

Wow! I aparantly fixed it 2 mins after posting this question. Here is what I did in case it can help someone else. I created another directory in J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ACDC with the same name as the problem directory in my case 1976 T.N.T. (I just tried it and it worked. I actually saw two directories with the same name and different creation dates) Then I backed out one directory to J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ in windows explorer Then I deleted the parent directory i.e. J:\Music\Library\Rock-Metal\ACDC ... and to my utter disbelief it actually got deleted. Thank you thank you thank you. I've been messing with this problem for the last 2 hours. Crated an identical folder and was able to delete the parent folder. Thank you!!!
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April 25th, 2011 6:18am

:( this didnt work for me
April 27th, 2011 1:11am

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