Hello,
I am a user of UiPath Studio 2026.0.201STS Community Edition.
I installed the Community Edition on two PCs (PC1 and PC2) and placed multiple projects in OneDrive to run them. Until about a week ago, I could successfully run the same project from both PCs, but recently, I can no longer execute the projects that worked on PC1 from PC2.
PC1 environment: UiPath Studio Community Edition version 2026.0.197STS
PC2 environment: UiPath Studio Community Edition version 2026.0.201STS
There is no synchronization issue between the cloud side and the local side of OneDrive.
Today, a different project encountered the following error, separate from the previous ones:
Error ERROR Validation Error Validation of ObjectBrowser failed. Cannot enumerate objects in C:\Users\(omitted)\.objects. Access to the path 'C:\Users\(omitted)\.objects\.metadata' is denied. .objects
I will upload the 2026-09-16_UiPath.Studio.log, so if anyone knows the cause and how to resolve it, please let me know. There is no execution.log. 2026-09-16_UiPath.Studio.txt (8.2 KB)
2. Make a local copy of the affected project, for example:```
C:\UiPath\MyProject
Do not work from:
C:\Users\<user>\OneDrive\...
3. Check the .objects folder permissions.
Navigate to:
<local-project>\.objects
Right-click → Properties → Security.
Your Windows account should have Modify / Read / Write access.
Also check that the folder/files aren’t effectively read-only. There is a UiPath forum case where moving a project caused Object Repository files to become read-only, and clearing the read-only attribute resolved the issue.
You can also run this from an elevated Command Prompt if needed:
attrib -R "C:\UiPath\MyProject\.objects" /S /D
4. Test the .metadata file directly
Check whether this exists:
C:\UiPath\MyProject\.objects\.metadata
Try opening/copying/renaming it from Windows Explorer.
If Windows itself reports Access Denied, the problem is definitely filesystem/OneDrive permissions rather than the Object Browser configuration.
