mahaldraken Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 HI I have an issue i cant fix. I tried finding the solution for a few hours but none of the fixes i found worked. When i try to set the mod staging folder something like this keeps appearing and i cant fix this:When i click give permission it appears after few seconds .iI think the problem is that i have this file on read only But i cant change it When i turn in off it automatically goes on read onyl again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 quick question - when you installed vortex, did you install it as admin on your system? and when you run it now, are you running it from an account that isn't admin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahaldraken Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 I honestly dont know if I installed it as admin but i use it on admin account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahaldraken Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 I can quicky reinstall it as an admin tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deleted34304850 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 no.vortex should not be installed as admin.when you install vortex - the installer needs admin authority - but vortex itself should not be admin.in terms of resolving that issue you've got - vortex is trying to write files and for each file it tries to write - it asks for permission because it doesn't have it.there are solutions available to help you - you can do a search for 'take ownership' which will allow you to "own" a file or folder - that could help you along here. but - its very important - do NOT install vortex as admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahaldraken Posted August 10, 2021 Author Share Posted August 10, 2021 the take ownership thing didint work, another thing that i have my vortex installed on C drive maybe thats the issue here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tannin42 Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 This is a bit of a red herring. Vortex is always installed as admin, that's not a problem. You have to run it as a regular user though.Having Vortex installed on C is definitively not a problem. Unfortunately I can only tell you what isn't a problem, I have no idea what's causing this for you. As discussed on discord: you're getting this when you try to move the staging folder to d:What happens there is that Vortex tries to copy the existing mod files (an empty directory if you haven't installed any mods yet) from your current staging directory to d: and the operating system says "no, permission denied". "Permission denied" usually indicates that either the account running Vortex doesn't have permissions (windows explorer -> properties -> security) to write to the directory or, in case of files, if the file is locked by another application, but since this error is about a directory that shouldn't be the case. The only other thing I can think of is some kind of security software or D isn't a "regular" drive. E.g. if it's a mounted network drive, the security settings on the actual host system would play into this as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HadToRegister Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Turn on User Access Control in Windows Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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