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1. SK said on April 22, 2011, 10:31:24 AM (-07:00)

Giratina
3,238 posts

It keeps telling me I don't have permission to save to some locations or delete certain files and I need administrator permission. How can I fix that..?

2. Jaredvcxz said on April 22, 2011, 10:52:10 AM (-07:00)

Giratina
3,185 posts

1) Are you an administrator?

2) Where are you trying to save/delete?

3. GoldLine said on April 22, 2011, 10:55:55 AM (-07:00)

Joltik
11 posts

Contact windows technical support they might be able to you help you.
Hopes this post helps :I

4. SK said on April 22, 2011, 11:35:51 AM (-07:00)

Giratina
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Furryvcxz View Post
1) Are you an administrator?

2) Where are you trying to save/delete?
Uhh, I think? I mean this is my computer and we got it like 3 days ago, there's only 1 profile thingy on here, so you would think so.

And I'm trying to save a Word Document to a folder where all my files are. Might not be able to save images there in the future which would be bad for my spriting career. xD

5. Ningamer said on April 22, 2011, 12:09:57 PM (-07:00)

Giratina
3,415 posts

Have you made sure that the folder's not read-only?

6. .name//Technomancer said on April 22, 2011, 01:08:08 PM (-07:00)

Haxorus
486 posts

Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldLine View Post
Contact windows technical support they might be able to you help you.
PFFFFAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Quote:
Originally Posted by Microsoft
Got a problem with your computer? Hold on, let's go ahead and make you buy every service pack, and all the discs for the original OS... Oh, you're only running Home 7? You need Windows 7 Ultimate Home, which is pricey, but it might make your computer work... Did I say might? I meant won't.
Microsoft can barely make a stable OS. They can't fix a single machine if they can't fix all of them.

One of two options. Go for Windows 7 Black, if you think it's an OS issue.

OR

Do the intelligent thing, and make sure you're saving the Word file as a .rtf [Rich Text Format]. There's no text document reader [Aside from Notepad I should think] that cant read that. .rtf files tent to be smaller than a standard .mwd anyway.

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7. NismoZ said on April 22, 2011, 01:45:47 PM (-07:00)

Kyurem
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Quote:
Originally Posted by .name//Technomancer View Post
PFFFFAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
If I could like half a post, I would totally do it.

Anyways, try this:

Right-click the folder, click Properties, and then switch to the Security tab, and then click "Edit." Then, click on your user in the box thing, and click the "Allow" check box next to Full Control. If it was already checked, then switch to the General tab, and see if the "Read Only" box is checked (as in having a blue square in it for some reason). If it is, uncheck it.

8. Jaredvcxz said on April 22, 2011, 01:55:55 PM (-07:00)

Giratina
3,185 posts

I vote we ban techno from this board.


You should either try running word as administrator or manually setting the ownership of your folders.

Taking ownership: http://www.blogsdna.com/2159/how-to-...-windows-7.htm

9. Cat333Pokémon said on April 22, 2011, 02:04:21 PM (-07:00)

Administrator
10,307 posts

Are you sure you are logged in as the same user as you were originally logged in as? Sometimes a restart can fix weird issues like that.

I know that permissions can be one of the most headache-inducing things, especially when indirectly accessing files. I was having trouble with that yesterday on Linux (the site's server) until I realized root owned one file and www-data owned the rest.

10. SK said on April 22, 2011, 03:06:48 PM (-07:00)

Giratina
3,238 posts

The problem turned out to be that it was on read only and the (only) user we have on this computer couldn't modify stuff in the folder, but I fixed that. Thanks guys.

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