Windows Explorer favorite empty and cannot add all items

I'm on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 and recently restored a backup after a system crash. The restore process required me to change the locations by default of the special folders such as Documents, downloads, video, etc.

After a reboot, my favorites (at the top of the left pane in Explorer) became unresponsive.
Favorites is empty and I can't drag all items in the Favorites window ('forbidden access' illustrious red sign).
Even after reset favorite special folder locations is always insensitive.
By clicking on "Add current location to Favorites" in the menu context has no effect.

But increasingly, when I highlight favourites and click on file-> properties from the Explorer menu, nothing happens.

I also tried to create shortcuts in the folder \Users\me\Favorites, but they do not appear.

Anyone else have this experience or you know a fix?

Thanks for your reply Gael.

I managed to fix it with a different tactic, however.

I tried to save a worksheet Excel to your Favorites, just to see where it will end up and was told by the dialogue that the file could not be saved to C:\Users\me\Links\Links\file.xlsx because the path does not exist.

Then I created another folder in \Users\me\Links called links to complete the path C:\Users\me\Links\Links\ and all my favorite shortcuts in there.
Following the closure of the Explorer window and re - open another, all my favorite shortcuts were again under Favorites at the top of the left pane.
Problem solved.

I don't know how I managed to set the location of my favorites to C:\Users\me\Links\Links\ in the first place well but I changed the location of the tip links to C:\Users\me\Links to remove the redundant subdirectory and all seems ok again.

Thanks again for the support.

Tags: Windows

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