Vortex needs to access ... but doesnt have permission to. If your account has admin rights Vortex can try to unlock the file for you

[Ado125]

hi, same problem, game - Skyrim

Mod staging folder is {USERDATA}\{GAME}\mods

The game is installed in program files x86 in subbfolder

Hardlink deployment

UAC is turned off - never notify

It looks like it asks me for pemission for every single file or its just repeating but its neverending cycle. Any help please?

[HadToRegister]

wrong info...deleted

[Tannin42]

UAC has nothing to do with file permissions!

UAC is about whether Windows notifies you before it allows a process to acquire higher *process* permissions than it would usually need, a sane application (like Vortex) will still _tell_ you before it runs stuff as admin.

 

File permissions are enforced on the file system level, you can't disable them globally and they are always active.

Vortex will *always* try to change the file permissions on the files it needs to access so that a regular user account can do it instead of just doing all its work as admin.

 

In your case you probably have entire directories where a regular user account doesn't have write access and Vortex tries to fix the permissions for each file individually.

You should be giving your regular account write access to the game directory as a whole.