So when i'm trying to add a folder to the library I keep getting this message.
Sorry, you can’t add this folder as a location because you don’t have permissions for that folder. (1971039)
Why am I getting this message? I even tried as administrator but it still gives me the message. tried different folders, drives, etc. keep getting message.
You cannot use C:/Program Files, or any other restricted folder. It's best to use E:/RiftGames or something like that. Also be sure your drive is a simple volume (not dynamic), NTFS format, and has at least 120GB space free. Also, if you installed the Oculus setup with Run as Admin, that will mess everything up. If you did that, you'll have to uninstall and run the setup again normally.
I'm getting this error every time I try and add it as a library location. I downloaded the oculus software to the C drive so I don't understand why this is an issue. I have game through steam on my C drive too so it's only an Oculus issue
Make sure that you are not installing in your windows, program files, or user folders. Just make a new folder along side of those in your C: drive and try that.
I have found a way to do this. Why? Because I have 2 hard drives, one with Windows 10, and one with the pre-release of Windows 11 where I wanted to test the Oculus Link compatibility. I wanted Oculus on the new version of windows to read the installed apps without having to reinstall any of them.
You have to fool it, but it can be fooled with a symlink and an empty folder since the Oculus app only tests for this issue when you try to do it directly. You are making a junction point to redirect it to the real location.
In my new copy of windows, my old version showed up on drive D, but still gave me the same error.
How to solve it:
You have to use the windows CMD app which is the command prompt (not power shell which does not like the mklink command) -- I opened CMD.EXE with administrator privileges.
First I create a folder on my new hard drive called: C:\Oculus
Then create a folder inside it called: Software.
So you now have:
C:\Oculus\Software
Open the Oculus app and go to your library settings to add that as the new location.
Close the Oculus app.
Delete the Software folder so you have only: C:\Oculus
Open the CMD app, with administrative privileges then go into the folder like so.
cd C:\Oculus
type this command (change it to link to wherever the folder you want as the redirected location) to make a junction to the real location:
I saw that it followed the symlink AND a real location.
It added these 2 as separate locations:
C:\Oculus\Software
D:\Program Files\Oculus\Software
(you can remove the first one from the list, don't delete, just remove it)
If you want, you can make the C:\Oculus folder hidden, but I decided not to do that so I can use it to make links to other locations as well. You can do it like so:
attrib +H C:\Oculus
To undo it if you decide you want it to be visible again:
attrib -H C:\Oculus
I tried to delete the C:\Oculus folder and it didn't like it. A different time I was able to, though I don't know why it worked once. If you do test and delete the folder, just leave it in the recycle bin so if you open it and the Oculus app doesn't find it, just restore it from the recycle bin and it will resume working.
Same issue is happening to me. Installed the Meta Quest Link app, but when I try to change the any store app download location from the default: C:\Oculus\Software location to a different folder on a different drive Im getting the message that I cant do that due to a lack of folder permissions. I removing permissions from that folder yet still no joy.
