Questions tagged [file-permissions]

Most current file systems have methods of administering permissions or access rights to specific users and groups of users. These systems control the ability of the users to view or make changes to the contents of the filesystem.

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"Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file" crashes all Windows 10 apps immediately

I've been having this problem for a day or two now. Every time I try to open any Windows 10 App or App Service (Groovy, Realtek Audio Manager, Photo Viewer, wsreset.exe), I'm greeted with "Windows ...
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Private User folders by default using file permissions on Windows 10 system

There are many ways one can change Permissions for certain files and folders on Windows manually (e.g. through Properties > Security > Permissions). But how do I change the default Permissions to make ...
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How to handle Win file server permissions when connecting from Linux?

Situation: We have a file server in Windows Server 2012 R2, and until now the workstations are running Windows. We are trying to use Linux in some workstations (CentOS 8), since all our apps run on a ...
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Cannot access USB files

Someone asked this a year or so ago but no resolution was published. I've tried to recover a 14.5GB drive but I've run into some trouble. The drive is already formatted FAT32. This happened after ...
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com.apple.quarantine is everywhere, how do I stop it?

Somehow, and at some point, I believe recently, my system decided to add the com.apple.quarantine attribute to some files. It was quite a pain and was stopping me running scripts that I'd written in ...
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Changing \Device directory permissions [closed]

Is there any way to change Windows \Device directory permissions? I can list them using WinObj but can't change them.
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It is possible to access a subdirectory of an SD Card without receiving the forbidden 403 message?

How procedure for a sub-directory mapped as a virtual-host using an SDCard formatted for a Mac OS Expanded (Journaling), have permission to correct that it does not receive a Forbidden 304 message. ...
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Why some users only have access to folder instead of all it's subfolders and files

I've set dian to have full control of D:\movies folder, subfolders and files, yet some directory inside D:\movies, such as D:\movies\Game.of.Thrones.Season.6, have permissions for this folder only. [![...
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Indesign 2020 taking over my computer

Yesterday I was attempting to install an update on a non-related program. After fighting for days, it was finally installing. Right then, Creative Cloud decided to install some sort of update. I ...
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Unable to move or remove files from Desktop on Mac OS Catalina

I am having an issue with the Desktop folder on my MacBook. I am not able to move or remove files from my Desktop using the GUI. I have tried the following steps: cmd + backspace on a file: Nothing ...
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Windows 10 - Can't save files, or execute certain programs unless running programs as administrator

So as the title says, I've encountered a user's laptop with a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, where I can't edit documents when running a program normally, such as Word, and more specifically, ...
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Run as Administrator command installs app to admin user instead of current user

I wrote an app for my client which is an electron app. In order to capture the screen, I'm using a .dll library since installation can't copy DLL to system32 folder, after installation I create a ...
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How to solve permission error when my user is owner of the file and I can't access from administrator user either

I used Microsoft encryption to encrypt my Office files but now it says you need permission to open this file while opening. I am opening the file with the user which is owner of the files and I have ...
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How to completely reset drive permissions

I've made the fatal and stupid mistake of messing around with permissions. Specifically, I added a deny Write rule for administrators to my C: drive. In my efforts to revert this change I have ...
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Cannot apply inherited permissions

I'm trying to fix the permissions on a directory and its contents, but I'm getting an error. I log in as an admin and modify the permissions for the directory, no problem. Then I click the box to ...
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What permissions on Documents library? (Windows 10)

My Windows 10 machine is not connected to a domain. I have several local users. To make space for their files, I moved their Documents libraries to a second drive, by creating a directory (I:\users\...
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Windows search finds files that don't belong to me

My Windows 10 machine has several local user accounts. Each user has a home directory on a second drive -- each user's Documents library points there. When I log in as User A and use the Windows ...
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Is there a way to check if the files in the Windows Defender Offline Scanner folder are corrupted?

On a Windows 10 PC, I opened the folder "...ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Offline Scanner" clicking 'continue' to allow access, not thinking at the time that it would allow any program ...
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How to require multiple permission group membership for file access?

Given that users can be added to multiple groups, I'm in a situation where I need to restrict access to an intersection of groups rather than a union or subset of groups for a file. More concretely, ...
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Windows cant find path : Permissions lost to access a folder's files

I have a huge folder named Softwares_New which has all my softwares dump, it is 177 GB in size. As I observed, all the files and folders lacked permission to access them. I went into folder properties,...
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Remove metadata from file

I am trying to remove the metadata from a file on Windows 10. It prompts me for administrator access, which I grant, but it then says File Access Denied. You require permission from [PC NAME]/[USER] ...
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Copy from Windows NTFS volume to NAS, independently of NTFS permissions

Short version: How can I copy an NTFS folder and files from an old SSD completely, independently of NTFS permissions, to a NAS? All attempts failed, many files omitted or copy stopped completely. The ...
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Why explorer.exe want's to access AcroTray.exe when I right click on a file in Windows 10?

I'm using Windows 10. I noticed the program C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat DC\Acrobat\acrotray.exe is constantly running in the background. Its name contains the word tray, which kind of ...
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Error with a folder security tab in Windows 10

On an external hard drive I have a folder which seems to have a problem. When I use software on it I have some error message, the only program with can open this folder looks like to be the file ...
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Users Cannot Edit Onenote Notebook After Moving File

I have moved a Onenote notebook from one server to another. In the new location a user was able to open the notebook but not edit it. I checked the permissions and users only had Read and Open. I ...
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Destination Folder Access Denied - You need permission to perform this action

I am trying to write files to a mapped network drive (from one server to another). I am trying to write as a user 'opcon' on our 'opcon' server to a mapped drive that is on our image server, and ...
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How to grant permission to edit files in Windows Subsystem Linux using Visual Code

I want to edit the \etc\apt\sources.list file in my Kali distro. I have the windows insider update and I am running WSL version 2. I have installed the vscode remote extension. When I try to save the ...
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Can't do anything about a folder despite having admin permissions

I've got a folder c:\temp\nvidia. It always says no permission whenever I try to modify this folder. Problem is even when I use the commandlie with admin privileges......I get the same message. Is ...
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protect folder contents from being copied

I have several developers in our company and I want them to works on our projects just on company computers(computer systems are local). We want to give them all folder permissions except copying ...
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Change created file permissions routinely with powershell

I have a certain problem I'm currently unable to figure out myself. My company has a public folder where users (other workers) can create files. The issue is that this folder needs to be configured in ...
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New LAMP Stack on VirtualBox Ubuntu Forbidden access to webpage

I just installed a LAMP stack on a fresh installation of Ubuntu on Oracle VirtualBox. I think all went smoothely, the only problem is after i setup a shared directory from my host pc to my /var/www ...
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Can I give a script elevated file access and run it from my current user?

I have a script (I call it dusort.sh) I use to gauge which files are taking up the most space on my drive in a given folder. It essentially boils down to this: #!/bin/bash du --all --human-readable -...
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File permissions/ownership on network share in MSYS2 vs Cygwin?

I work on Windows 10, with both MSYS2 and Cygwin installed. For the most part I work with MSYS2 (or rather, MINGW64 shell in this case), and I generally do not have a problem accessing files on a ...
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How to share a folder with other user accounts?

There are two user accounts in my pc: one is the administrator account and the other one is a local account. There is a folder which can only be accessed through my (administrator) account but I want ...
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Offline file syncing causes permission issues and hides some (but not all) desktop shortcuts

I have a user running Windows 10 on his laptop who I have enabled Offline Files in Control Panels' Sync Center. Initially everything appeared to be working fine after we restarted his computer, but ...
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Not Able to Access Windows 10 Folders From Windows 7 Machine

I am new to Windows 10 (build 1903) and am trying to network the new machine to my Windows 7 machine, and I'm soooooo close ... From my W10 machine, I can see my W7 folders fine. I had to log in with ...
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How to include subfolders in a Windows path?

I would like to follow this guide to lockdown a machine by blocking the execution of binary files for a specific user via a group policy in the MMC like so: https://blog.brankovucinec.com/2014/10/24/...
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Linux restrict partition access

I have a separate partition mounted as /home and everything else is mounted under root / except the swap partition. I want a certain user (let's call him 'user') to only have access to /home and keep ...
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Excel Lock File - Why can i copy it, but not open it?

If i have an Excel file SomeFile.xlsx open, a file is created ~SomeFile.xlsx that contains the name of the user who has opened/locked the Excel file. I can't directly open the file in Notepad, but I ...
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Permission errors with docker after OS upgrade

After upgrading to Ubuntu 19.04, I get permission errors with any docker image. For example running docker run -ti centos /bin/bash gives me bash: /root/.bashrc: Permission denied I've never used ...
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How to script Users or Groups into a folder's Share

I have a bunch of servers with a Shared folder and numerous AD groups that need to have Full Control access to the Share--I don't care right now about the Security tab on that folder--I'm talking ...
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How to restore "wheel" user/group?

I deleted wheel group in HDD "get info/permissions" wrongly thinking it was hacker. I now see that my Mac is running akwardly these days. How can I restore or recover "natural" or previous HDD user/...
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icacls destroys win 10

I saved my Win7 System paratition to an external drive. Then formatted and installed Win10 instead of Win7. Everything ok so far. In order to get access to all the files on the saved folders I ...
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How to fix a security issue raised after reinstalling OS in one new drive?

I'm not sure why it must be such secure. After reinstalling the OS in a new SSD, I've recognized that there are many files (in the HDD in the same computer) that seem to have owner missing and I (the ...
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Read/Write Permissions in Mac OS Catalina

I'm just merely trying to change my system icons (namely messages and mail) but don't have the necessary read/write access and when I try to change that, it says just that, that I don't have the ...
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Allow file modification but deny file creation

Is it possible, on Windows Server 2019, to allow users to modify the content of existing files in a directory BUT denying them the permission to create new files? I tried giving them 2 different ...
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Remove ACLs in Linux permissions

I have files that have a plus sign next to the permissions -rwxrwx---+ on a Linux samba server. I found the setfacl command to adjust the acl settings, I would like to remove the ACL completely, ...
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Copy files using WinSCP: Permission denied

Platform: Google Compute Engine VM instance: pytorch-latest-gpu-20190911 login command: $ gcloud compute ssh jupyter@my-fastai-instance -- -L 8080:localhost:8080 In order to save GCP billing time, ...
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Windows 10 Search Bar shows Uninstalled Programs

I have a problem with the Windows 10 search where it keeps showing old programs after I've uninstalled them. One example is Apple Software Update: problem.png And when I click or right click on it, ...
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Windows file permissions/ownership are preventing me syncing between computers

I have been using Google Backup and Sync for some time but I just decided it would be nice if I could use it for properly syncing so that data on all my Windows machines could essentially be the same, ...
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