Quixel Bridge Failed to restart background service

Going to the Preferences in Quixel Bridge (ie not in UE) and changing the Library Path also fixed it for me. Despite this being a known, crazy bug that must affect a sizable chunk of Windows (and others) machines its been left open for oven a year!?

The reason I say it will affect so many is… stupid MS Onedrive (which is default to Enabled in Windows 11) likes to take over the My Documents folder with a kind of virtualised location. This is usually invisible to the user as for years programs have used Environment Variables to “know” where folders like Documents are… not hardcoded locations like Quixel Bridge is doing.

Quixel Bridge thinks this is an ok path:

  • C:\Users\NAME\Documents\Megascans Library

however this is the actual location:

  • C:\Users\NAME\ OneDrive \Documents\Megascans Library
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