Solved Permission issues. Fed up with "You do not have permission to....."

[RoWin7]

Simple. Share the hard drive or folder you can not access because of a permissions problem

The previous posts are 5 years old and 3 years old.

 

[margrave]

There are two issues here:

1. An app has locked a file for exclusive access. This is good. If two programs were to write on the file, the result would be mangled ... tantamount to losing the file entirely. That would be bad. So don't attempt to "fix" or override this.

2. File (or folder) permissions are "wrong". You are denied access inappropriately. The solution has always stymied me. My "fix" is to take ownership of the parent folder and change its ACLs so as to open up the permissions to the folder. This is not good security, but it works.

Using icacls, the folder ACL looks like this:

<MY-COMPUTER-NAME>\<MY-USER-NAME>: (OI)(CI)(F)
<MY-COMPUTER-NAME>\None: (OI)(CI)(F)
Everyone: (OI)(CI)(F)

BTW: I'm using Cygwin, which creates a group called "None" ... which explains that second ACE, above.
Its GUID is: S-1-5-21-2474832891-817950433-1932893390-513