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Takket
Copper Contributor
Apr 11, 2026

File History has stopped functioning

My file history program has stopped functioning. I tried searching the internet for some of these error messages and I have not found anything that has a solution that works. I tried deleting the bac...
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Takket
Copper Contributor
Apr 14, 2026

Ran DISM and SFC. DISM ran for quite a while and repaired some things, but it didn't tell me what. File History still doesn't work. Same problem. Though the error message has changed:

 

Unusual condition was encountered during finalization of a backup cycle for configuration C:\Users\jctak\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\Config

 

I was able to run a full system image which ran without any errors at all. 

 

Update: Ran chkdsk which corrected many "reparse" points (which is an error i had seen a few times on File History). After doing that i deleted the config/data files to start file history fresh and ran it again. it ran for over 30 minutes so i was thinking it was actually copying files but then... nope. it ended, threw the same error, and a check of the backup drive showed no files had been copied. so... i don't know what it thought it was doing for 30 minutes? but it did nothing.