How to Solve File History’s Error “Unusual condition was encountered during scanning user libraries for changes and performing backup of modified files for configuration”

Problem: File History in Windows 8.1 does not copy perform any back-up activity, no file are copied into “data” folder, e.g. “K:\FileHistory\Data” and the Event Viewer shows “Unusual condition was encountered during scanning user libraries for changes and performing backup of modified files for configuration”.

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Unusual condition was encountered during scanning user libraries for changes and File History not running on schedule

Applies to: Windows 8, Windows 8.1

These solutions DOES NOT WORK:-

  1. Deleting “Catalog1.edb”, “Catalog2.edb”, “Config1.xml” and “Config2.xml” from these folders :-
    1.  C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\FileHistory\Configuration\Config
    2. Back-up folder — K:\FileHistory\zenbook-user\ASUS-UX303L\Configuration
  2. Scan hard disk for corrupted files.

Solution: remove all network drives and external drives from Libraries.

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Remove external drives from Library