why do I get the error message Destination Folder Access Denied

Posted: 02-25-2007, 06:46 AM
I am new to windows vista. And, I tried to delete a folder of music from my
desktop and it tells me destination Folder Access Denied and I need
permission to perform that action. It is my computer and I am the only user.
How do I delete the folder from my desktop??
Thank you
Amy
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Jesper
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RE: why do I get the error message Destination Folder Access Denied
Posted: 02-26-2007, 02:32 AM
> I am new to windows vista. And, I tried to delete a folder of music from my
> desktop and it tells me destination Folder Access Denied and I need
> permission to perform that action. It is my computer and I am the only user.
> How do I delete the folder from my desktop??
You get this when you try to delete a folder that you do not have access to
delete. It may be that Administrators have access to delete the folder. If
so, you should get a prompt with a little shield icon on it. That shield icon
is a notification that you need to "elevate" to an administrator to perform
this action. Click that button and you will get a prompt to elevate. Then the
folder will be deleted.
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Even Administrators cant copy files
Posted: 03-03-2007, 10:04 PM
So heres my situation I'm copying across my network from my old computer to this one. I am administrator and am copying into my own pictures folder from my old picture folder. Some files come across easily, others of the exact same type, give me the Destination Folder Access Denied BS.

I can deal with a Cancel/Allow, but there is no shield to elevate, and I am the admin.... what gives?

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Posted: 03-03-2007, 11:27 PM
> So heres my situation I'm copying across my network from my old computer to
this one. I am administrator and am copying into my own pictures folder from
my old picture folder. Some files come across easily, others of the exact
same type, give me the Destination Folder Access Denied BS.


Jimmy, this is the second instance of this problem I have seen, and I don't
think we got a resolution on it. I saw your comment on my blog. Any chance
you can use the "contact me" feature on the blog to shot me a mail with more
details? I haven't seen this, but you're the second person complaining of it.
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Re: Even Administrators cant copy files
Posted: 03-04-2007, 06:30 PM
Why does Vista seem to take an incredible amount of time to move files from
one disk to another? I find that copying takes 3-4 times longer than XP.

John

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>> So heres my situation I'm copying across my network from my old computer
>> to
> this one. I am administrator and am copying into my own pictures folder
> from
> my old picture folder. Some files come across easily, others of the exact
> same type, give me the Destination Folder Access Denied BS.
>
>
> Jimmy, this is the second instance of this problem I have seen, and I
> don't
> think we got a resolution on it. I saw your comment on my blog. Any chance
> you can use the "contact me" feature on the blog to shot me a mail with
> more
> details? I haven't seen this, but you're the second person complaining of
> it.
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Destination Folder Access Denied
Posted: 03-19-2007, 12:47 PM
When I try and copy mp3 files from my laptop(running XP), across the network to my PC (running Vista) I get the "Destination Folder Access Denied" when I try and paste to a folder, even though I have administrator status on both machines.

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Posted: 03-19-2007, 01:12 PM
I found this happened between Vista machines accross my wireles network too.
The only thing that i foudn was that I coudl copy them and paste them to the
My documents folder in the destination drive adn then transfer them to the
appropriate folder! Don't know why, but this was the solution i used.

Hope that helps

Billy

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> When I try and copy mp3 files from my laptop(running XP), across the
> network to my PC (running Vista) I get the "Destination Folder Access
> Denied" when I try and paste to a folder, even though I have administrator
> status on both machines.
>
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Posted: 03-19-2007, 05:35 PM
When you copied to c:\users\<youruser>\documents it worked? Where were you
originally copying them?

"Billy" wrote:
> I found this happened between Vista machines accross my wireles network too.
> The only thing that i foudn was that I coudl copy them and paste them to the
> My documents folder in the destination drive adn then transfer them to the
> appropriate folder! Don't know why, but this was the solution i used.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Billy
>
> "david" wrote in message news:200731964714davidnbryant@blueyonder.co.uk...
> > When I try and copy mp3 files from my laptop(running XP), across the
> > network to my PC (running Vista) I get the "Destination Folder Access
> > Denied" when I try and paste to a folder, even though I have administrator
> > status on both machines.
> >
> > EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
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Re: why do I get the error message Destination Folder Access Denied
Posted: 04-01-2007, 03:23 PM

I also have this problem. I installed Eclipse, I put it under Program
Files, which took all sorts of repeated confirmations and about 3 hours
to copy the files from my users directory.
Having done so, I decided I had the wrong version and tried to delete
the directory tree under Program Files. I've managed (again with many
repeated confirmations) to delete everything except the eclipse.exe
executable and the folder it's in and it's parent.

I've tried both delete (move to bin) and shift delete (direct delete)
and in both instances, when I click on delete I get a dialogue box
headed:

Destination Folder Access Denied

The box has a Continue shield. When I click it I get the User Account
Control dialogue, I click Continue, and then I'm back to the
Destination Folder Access Denied box again.

As with Jimmy above, I am administrator and I put the file there in the
first place. Seems like I'm stuck with it there?


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