Cannot Open A File After Moving It

At the office, I created an excel file in my PC, then I created a shortcut (C:\Oka\Documents\) of the file to the desktop. After using the file for some days, I moved this file to a flash drive. At the office I can open the file from the flash drive.

At home, I cannot open the same file.



Looking at the properties of the file, I realized in the 'Shortcut' tab, the file got 'hard coded'
it's original file path (C:\Oka\Documents\).



I renamed the file and still cannot open it at home PC. I created an 'equal' path at the
home computer (C:\Oka\Documents\Exterior Column Count.xlsx), copied the file into it,
still I cannot open it.

Will try to open it again from the Office PC, save as to a different name. The issue is,
am off until Monday, in four days but would like to have a solution on such issue in
case of next time.
Thank you.

Wif you double click on the file in explorer what happens?

Samuria said:

Wif you double click on the file in explorer what happens?

It does the same with the error and original path. I even installed LibreOffice and still can't open the file.

caxtin said:

After using the file for some days, I moved this file to a flash drive.

Looks to me like you moved the shortcut to the file, not the file itself. A shortcut is a pointer to something, and
they do not work outside the environment they were created in.

TairikuOkami said:

Try to run CMD as admin and copy/paste:

Code:

net start TrkWks
fsutil usn deletejournal /d /n c:
chkdsk /scan

The service is responsible for maintaining links and check disk might fix indexing.

Also, if you have enabled Protected Folders in Windows Defender, it could cause issues.

I got this with the code:


Also, I don't have Protected Folders on in the Defender.

f14tomcat said:

In the first pic, where you redacted out the file name, can't read it, but from what is visible, it appears to not match at all anything in your properties pic. Just pointing this out because it all looks like two different files. Again, based only on what I see as visible in the paths.

The redaction was to cover the original file name (which is personal). The "Exterior Column Count" is there as a place holder. I apologize for the confusion.