Windows 7 permission bug.

[Wild Dog]

Yesterday while i was editing some pictures, i found this bug:

When i try to save a file i got this message:

" C:\XXXXXX\XXXXX\filename

You dont have permission to modify files in this network location

Contact the administrartor per permission to make these changes"

The thing is that i am the administartor and after i click OK w/o closing the program i can try again and save the file in the same location w/o problems.

[3ntropy]

Are you guys not responding to this because it's already been addressed elsewhere, or because noone else has run into this or knows a solution?

[Roger H. Veteran]

Is your C drive the drive where windows 7 is installed to or another partition? If it's on another partition then it will give you that error since that's another setup especially if your username is a bit different.

You also don't save in the C drive often, the folders dedicated for user data (aka C:\Users\*user*\ ) folders are the places where data would normally go so i think it's part of Windows trying to protect itself.

When you click OK you are editing the permissions of the folder and adding yourself with rights. By default i think only "System" has full control over the folder while all others have Read/Traverse and other "Special" permissions.

[3ntropy]

Is your C drive the drive where windows 7 is installed to or another partition? If it's on another partition then it will give you that error since that's another setup especially if your username is a bit different.

You also don't save in the C drive often, the folders dedicated for user data (aka C:\Users\*user*\ ) folders are the places where data would normally go so i think it's part of Windows trying to protect itself.

When you click OK you are editing the permissions of the folder and adding yourself with rights. By default i think only "System" has full control over the folder while all others have Read/Traverse and other "Special" permissions.

Windows 7 is indeed installed on my C:/ drive, with no special partitions. The message occurs when I am saving into directories that shouldn't have any reason to create such errors, such as the user's respective Desktop and My Documents folder. This is coming up under a user account with Administrator permissions.

Reproduction:

1) Save dialog comes up

2) Select directory, click save

3) Upon clicking save, Windows throws the error

" C:\XXXXXX\XXXXX\filename

You dont have permission to modify files in this network location

Contact the administrartor per permission to make these changes"

Now the odd part is that despite saying I don't have permissions to save the file, it goes ahead and saves it for me anyways. It's just a major annoyance, as it adds an extra mouseclick whenever I want to save a file, which can become very time consuming if I'm going to be doing a lot of file saving.

[Gary2MBz]

It did that to me on the 7 and Vista partitions on the Desktop however it did not save. I try again and it works. Strangely it even did that on my USB Flash Drive. Happened on 7 build 7000 x64.

[icebearhugo]

Error occurring on file saves

"You don’t have permission to modify files in this network location

Contact the administrator per permission to make these changes"

Windows 7 Build 7000 Beta 64 bit

Hello,

I came across this forum searching for information on this same error. It happened whenever I tried to save files into the Libraries, if I repeated the save a second error popped up asking if I wanted to overwrite file as it already existed, and that would always succeed.

I seem to have solved the problem on my system.

During 'Windows 7' installation I had skipped the [HomeGroup] setup; this seems to be the problem.

I had a [Home Network] and simply setup a [HomeGroup] in the [Network Sharing Center] and was then given a password.

So I guess Windows now sees all the User Locations as being within the correct User Network. I can now save with no error.

Hope this is understandable and helpful to some. Cheers! :)

[lordtinuviel]

I have the same error and still get the error

[icebearhugo]

I have the same error and still get the error

Yes, I started getting the same error again :((

I tried adding my destination folder, which in my case was [Downloads] to my Libraries, I thought I was downloading into that already.

After right clicking 'Downloads' folder and selecting [include In Library] = Documents, the problem has gone again.

Hmm! Have a go.

Update - Worked for a few saves and error returned :angry:: I give up for now, this has been going on since I installed Win 7. I'll keep hunting though. Funny thing, nothing about this on any Microsoft TechNet forums.

Edited March 4, 2009 by icebearhugo

[Quasar2112]

I see this a lot with Firefox 3.1 beta and 3.2 alpha running on Win 7 for x64 beta build 7000.

Does anyone see this on a build later than build 7000?

[lordtinuviel]

Firefox 3.0.6 here

[br0adband]

I have the same behavior in Build 7048 x64, using Firefox 3.0.6 and 3.0.7 both with clean installs soooo... it could be particular to Firefox, etc. there's just no way to know for sure. But it only happens when saving documents/pics/files with Firefox so far in the past 24 hours or so I've had 7048 running. Didn't happen with 7000/7022... reported it with Feedback also.

[»X«]

Not firefox, I'm getting the same error when saving files in Kmplayer. Really annoying.

[donchen]

I had some issues when i install Tuneup Utilities 2009 but when I right click and " Run as administrator ", the same error appear telling me i don't have permission to register some module and i clicked ignore. The installation went ahead to complete and the program still runs.

I don't know what happen or did i not install properly but until not, it still works fine...

[zivan56]

I have this problem in built 7000...especially with Photoshop CS 3 "save as for the web" feature. It says this every time Photoshop wants to create a new file, and it creates a blank file. Once I choose to overwrite it, it saves fine.

Never had the issue in any other apps though.

[DeathAbyss]

I too, have this problem. Is there a fix for it yet?

I think the problem has to do with the permissions settings because I got this error after I fiddled with some of the ownership settings. =/

[RageOfFury]

I've had a particular problem with Firefox 3.0.6/7 freezing and causing explorer.exe to crash when saving a file(picture, exe, pdf, etc). It happened at random. This occurred in builds 7000, 7048 and 7057. I have yet to encounter this problem in build 7068.

[Breakthrough]

I encountered this issue only in Build 7000;

Build 7057 (x64) and build 7068 (x32) -> THIS ISSUE WENT AWAY FOR ME.

The worst was in Visual Studio; I would have to clean the entire project DIR every time I needed to rebuild (7000), and every four-or-so-times, restart the whole damn machine. Never ONCE had to do that on 7057 / 7068.

[sniperspade]

I too am getting this Permission error everyday, Its annoying as hell. I am the admin and built this computer from the ground up. I feel i should be able to do what i want when i want regardless if what i am about to do will mess anything up. ITS MY COMPUTER!!!!!!

I'm trying to change and save the host file in system32/drivers/etc/host.

I need to do this to be able to connect to my OWN Lineage 2 server i am running but i cant because i don't have permission to do something on my own computer...

Besides the fact that it took me 10hrs to get MySQL/java/navicat to all work together to get my server back up in the first place, the one and only game i do play i cant because of not being able to save HOST and constant gamegaurd errors because win7 blocks it, or at least they don't communicate.

sigh... Should of stayed with win xp. Everything worked perfectly fine

Win7 has caused me nothing but problems since i installed it.

[Argi]

Are these clean installs? Have you tried with one of the newer leaked builds?

[agreenbhm]

I too am getting this Permission error everyday, Its annoying as hell. I am the admin and built this computer from the ground up. I feel i should be able to do what i want when i want regardless if what i am about to do will mess anything up. ITS MY COMPUTER!!!!!!

I'm trying to change and save the host file in system32/drivers/etc/host.

I need to do this to be able to connect to my OWN Lineage 2 server i am running but i cant because i don't have permission to do something on my own computer...

Besides the fact that it took me 10hrs to get MySQL/java/navicat to all work together to get my server back up in the first place, the one and only game i do play i cant because of not being able to save HOST and constant gamegaurd errors because win7 blocks it, or at least they don't communicate.

sigh... Should of stayed with win xp. Everything worked perfectly fine

Win7 has caused me nothing but problems since i installed it.

Two questions:

First of all, are you using beta or RC? If you're not using RC (or an even more recent build), upgrade.

Secondly, the HOSTS file is always a bit awkward to edit. Save the HOSTS file to your desktop or something, edit it, and then copy it to the correct location (and overwrite the current HOSTS).

[Raa]

I have this error on 7100, but only when I save files from IE, and it's not consistent.

I filed a bug report on it, but they couldn't repro it.

[sniperspade]

Two questions:

First of all, are you using beta or RC? If you're not using RC (or an even more recent build), upgrade.

Secondly, the HOSTS file is always a bit awkward to edit. Save the HOSTS file to your desktop or something, edit it, and then copy it to the correct location (and overwrite the current HOSTS).

No clue which version im using, It says build 7100 in the bottom right corner. Was a buddy that actually convinced me to try win7 and he burnt the disk and give it to me. I was perfectly happy with XP, granted it was only home version not PRO so a whole GIG of ram wasnt being read, i still loved it. who knows win7 might grow on me but as of right now i have no urge to purchase it.

And as far as the host file, ive never once had the slightest problem with it on XP. Ive tried both on win7 open with note pad directly then try save and patch in a HOST file from my rapidshare account which over 4000 have downloaded and never had a problem using my instructions on how to patch.

I dunno i just feel as the admin you should at least get a warning that says "saving or doing what your about to do "could" harm your computer do you wish to continue? Not just a flat out NOPE sorry you cant.

[agreenbhm]

No clue which version im using, It says build 7100 in the bottom right corner. Was a buddy that actually convinced me to try win7 and he burnt the disk and give it to me. I was perfectly happy with XP, granted it was only home version not PRO so a whole GIG of ram wasnt being read, i still loved it. who knows win7 might grow on me but as of right now i have no urge to purchase it.

And as far as the host file, ive never once had the slightest problem with it on XP. Ive tried both on win7 open with note pad directly then try save and patch in a HOST file from my rapidshare account which over 4000 have downloaded and never had a problem using my instructions on how to patch.

I dunno i just feel as the admin you should at least get a warning that says "saving or doing what your about to do "could" harm your computer do you wish to continue? Not just a flat out NOPE sorry you cant.

What you're saying about RAM usage in XP differing between Home & Pro versions makes absolutely no sense at all. No offense, but you don't really sound like the type that should be beta testing trial software, especially if you were totally happy with XP.

I don't really understand what you said you're doing with the HOSTS file. You said you opened it, edited it, and couldn't save, but also that you tried to overwrite it with your Rapidshare d/l'd one? Ensure that you are an administrator on the machine.

You're using RC (which is version 7100). Oh, and btw, I wouldn't exactly trust a HOSTS file d/l'd from Rapidshare. Go to http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm to get a trustworthy HOSTS file.

[sniperspade]

What you're saying about RAM usage in XP differing between Home & Pro versions makes absolutely no sense at all. No offense, but you don't really sound like the type that should be beta testing trial software, especially if you were totally happy with XP.

I don't really understand what you said you're doing with the HOSTS file. You said you opened it, edited it, and couldn't save, but also that you tried to overwrite it with your Rapidshare d/l'd one? Ensure that you are an administrator on the machine.

You're using RC (which is version 7100). Oh, and btw, I wouldn't exactly trust a HOSTS file d/l'd from Rapidshare. Go to http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm to get a trustworthy HOSTS file.

Might not of explained it 100% but the host file i downloaded is also the same one i uploaded/created so that others could connect to my home server, Its not just some random host file. It was just easier to Re-download it from my rapidshare account than to re-write it. Mainly because it has 3 different IPs that i couldnt remember off the top of my head. internal/external and an Nprotect line.

What i was talking about with home/pro is the max ammount of ram 32 bit reads. i have 8gigs and on xp home it would only read 3,125 of it. XP pro is 64bit and will read 16g of RAM. I had purchased this amount of RAM because i had planned on buying XP pro in the near future (also got a good deal) but trying win7 for now.

As far as a person that should or shouldnt be testing beta software i agree, Im really not "testing" anything for the purpose of providing any usefull feedback. Im really just trying it out for myself to see if i like it.

[Linkinfamous]

Your notepad.exe instance is not running with administrative privileges, and thus unable to write to that location. Launch notepad as an administrator if you want to do this.

Explorer is capable of elevating itself for the operation.

This is not a bug. Integrity levels are a feature.