Issue: when copying or moving files or folders using Windows Explorer a dialog box with the title “Item Not Found” appears. It says: “Could not find this item” and then says “This is no longer located in” and then lists the path of the item being moved.
The solution was suggested on the excellent sevenforums.com forums:
Windows 7 – “Item Not Found” when Moving or Renaming
Specifically, the solution relates to anyone who has previously used a utility to remove libraries from Windows 7, which is something I did at one point. This caused a problem with the registry and the solution suggested is to run a registry patch remove-libraries.reg
That patch itself is from a post at mydigitallife.info: How To Disable and Remove Libraries from Windows 7 Explorer which has that patch and also a patch restore-libraries.reg to restore libraries.
I am providing both these files for download for the sake of the community although I highly recommend checking the source pages to make sure you have the latest versions.
As a final note, I applied the remove-libraries.reg patch and the problem is definitely fixed.
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