# Desktop app known issues
Source: https://nordvec.com/sk/docs/guides/desktop/known-issues#folders-the-app-will-not-add

## Folders the app will not add [#folders-the-app-will-not-add]

The app declines these folders when you pick them, and says why.

### A whole drive cannot be added [#a-whole-drive-cannot-be-added]

What you see: **A whole drive is too broad to sync. Pick a folder on it instead.**

**Cause:** The root of a drive holds far more than documents, and watching it would make every scan and removal walk the entire drive.

**Workaround:** Add the folders on that drive that hold your documents, one at a time.

### Your home folder cannot be added [#your-home-folder-cannot-be-added]

What you see: **Your account folder holds app data and settings as well as documents, and its name is your computer's account name. Pick Documents, Desktop, or another folder inside it.**

**Cause:** Your home folder holds app data, settings and caches as well as documents, so watching it would put all of them in Nordvec. Its name is also your computer account name.

**Workaround:** Add Documents, Desktop or another folder inside your home folder instead.

### A folder inside or around a watched folder cannot be added [#a-folder-inside-or-around-a-watched-folder-cannot-be-added]

What you see: **This folder overlaps with a folder you are already watching.**

**Cause:** A file in two watched folders would have two owners, and an exclusion set on one folder would not apply through the other.

**Workaround:** Files in a folder inside a watched folder already sync, so there is nothing to add. To watch a wider folder instead, stop watching the narrower one first: its documents leave Nordvec until the wider folder syncs them again.