Hi,
since the Windows 10 update from last night, my odrive won’t start anymore.
Whenever I click on C:\Program Files\odrive\odrive.exe I receive an “Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the approprieate permissions to access the item” error message.
I already tried reverting to an earlier restoration point, tried reinstalling the program, checked the permissions inside the folder, tried running the program in compatibility mode, tried to exclude program from windows defender and I’m officially out of ideas…
Thanks for your quick reply Tony!
I have recheck all the steps on the link you just sent me, and I still receive the same error message when opening the file.
The awkward thing is, yesterday everything was working perfectly…
All other programs I checked are working perfectly.
The first time I just did a repair installation. Then I completely uninstalled the program, restarted my computer then installed it again. In the mean time, those updates I suspected were the cause of my problem got reinstalled by Windows (as I tried to fix my problem I did a roll back to a date before those updates).
I was using Windows Defender and installed Avira Connect, since I read in some forums that the permission problem could be caused by an anti-virus program. That also didn’t work.
I also tried your suggestion renaming the odrive.exe to notepad.exe… the same error message appeared.
As for opening the app from [You user directory].odrive\bin[version#]\odriveapp.exe, the folder wasn’t even created during the install process…
Yesterday night I turned off my computer an went to sleep… today as I turned it on “magically” the odrive setup message appeared and everything is working like 2 days ago!
I have absolutely no clue why but I’m happy it’s working! I’m still suspecting it had something to do with a Windows update.
I have the exact same problem. I have just updated Windows 10 and Odrive is not working anymore. And I get the same error when I try to launch odrive.exe
Hi @rjansenbr,
We can try an uninstall and reinstall of the software. This will backup your current odrive folder and then start things fresh, but hopefully it will get around whatever is causing this issue. Are you willing to give that a shot?