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I have pinned several drives and folders to Quick Access in Windows 11. No problems. But I have an F-drive that is 7 Tb that will not pin to quick access. The pin option is available, as you can see:

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...but it does nothing. I even tried rebooting, thinking maybe the windows explorer cache was stuck or something. No dice.

How is it done? If there's no way, can I hack the registry to get it to show up? Is there a limit to how many items I can pin to quick access? I don't think I have an excessive amount, as you can see:

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HerrimanCoder
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This answer is more of a yeet-it-all, however this might work.

There is a file in %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations, with name f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms. This file stores the information about the folders you've pinned. What I think is, this file somehow got corrupted on your computer, yk, since Windows 11 is still under development. When you delete this file, it is automatically remade within second — And you'll get desktop, documents, downloads, and pictures pinned by default. You can pin F:\ immediately after.

Saaransh Garg
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Open a PowerShell session and enter the following commands:

$o = new-object -com shell.application
$o.Namespace('F:\').Self.InvokeVerb("pintohome")

If this fails to work, then is there something special about the F: drive?

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  • Didn't work, but I'm concerned about `pintohome` because I wanted to pin in to windows explorer `Quick Access` and not to home. The F: drive is an internal drive in my PC. It's not external/portable/virtual/mapped, nothing unusual. – HerrimanCoder Feb 12 '22 at 14:35
  • `pintohome` is documented as pertaining to Quick Access, but this is easy to test. Is `F:` perhaps shared over the network, has a different owner than yourself, or some other particularity? – harrymc Feb 12 '22 at 14:45
  • It was shared, but I unshared it. It was owned by `System` but I changed it to `Everyone` (my own logged-in user account didn't display in the list!?). Tried again to add it to Quick Access, tried again the powershell script. Still nothing works. `F:` still won't appear in windows explorer quick access. – HerrimanCoder Feb 14 '22 at 14:09
  • The `Everyone` pseudo-account is not a good choice - select instead your own user account. – harrymc Feb 14 '22 at 14:11
  • As stated, my own user account doesn't show up. It's not in the list of accounts in the folder properties -> Advanced -> Ownership. I don't understand why. – HerrimanCoder Feb 14 '22 at 15:31
  • Is your account local or Microsoft? – harrymc Feb 14 '22 at 16:00
  • I believe it's Microsoft, not local. This is a work PC. – HerrimanCoder Feb 14 '22 at 16:40
  • Try making the owner a local account. – harrymc Feb 14 '22 at 18:17
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/134127/discussion-between-herrimancoder-and-harrymc). – HerrimanCoder Feb 14 '22 at 21:26
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Incase you're struggling with this issue on Windows 11, I found the following link. Running it through cmd worked instantly.

Clear and Reset Quick Access Folders in Command Prompt

Copy and then paste this into Command Prompt:

del /f /s /q /a "%AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations\f01b4d95cf55d32a.automaticDestinations-ms"

Jordyn
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  • Welcome to SuperUser, and thanks for your contribution. Unfortunately "This is how you reset Quick Access folders" isn't quite an answer to question "How do I pin drive X to Quick Access". As you're new here, it's a good idea to take the [Tour](https://superuser.com/tour) and check at least the Asking and Answering -sections in the [Help](https://superuser.com/tour) to learn how these sites work. – Peregrino69 Mar 01 '23 at 20:36