Vortex needs Access..

[Kolours]

Alright so I'm kinda new to modding, I started modding Fallout New Vegas, and mistakenly corrupted my game. So then I went and deleted the vortex folder, along with my Fallout New Vegas folder in order to start over fresh, now I use my guest account on my computer, and so whenever I go to put the Fallout Data Folder to Not Read Only is won't apply the settings, apparently it might be a program on my pc that is whitelisting my folders as read only, I have set perms for all my users, and I have full access to my external harddrive and I'm having one hell of a time trying to set Vortex the way it was when I first ever downloaded it.

Anyone got a fix I looked up my problem and didn't find a fix but I'm hope someone can give me some insight or help with this.

[dubiousintent]

Without the specifics of where you did install the game originally, all I can give you is the general advice and hope something will give you the correct clue. If you simply deleted folders without uninstalling (so the registry was cleared out), then you have a conflict between your new installation and the registry entry from the old install. If your "guest account" was not given access prior to the deletion, then it will not be granted without using an "administrator" account. Typically you will need "admin" access to clean up things.

 

* Did you install Steam to it's default location? (GOG is not a problem as it places the game correctly.) If so, please see the wiki "Installing Games on Windows Vista+" article for why the original default Steam behavior of installing games to the "C:\Program Files" or "C:\Program Files(x86)" folder tree was bad (they learned better, and don't do that any more but didn't change it for older games); and why "disabling UAC and running as Administrator" is NOT sufficient, with instructions how to move it. Among other things, later versions of Windows (since the game was released) force files in "system protected" folder trees to be "read only" regardless of how you set them.

Don't move it to "User\Documents" either, as "executables" are not permitted to run from there for similar "anti-malware" reasons.

This is the single most important thing you can do to fix and protect yourself against problems in the future. As much of a PITA as that is, it's never going to be any easier than now. System updates often cause issues with games installed to these folder trees. With the game moved out of the default location you will not need to be running it as an "Administrator Account", which is safer. Please see the 'Restoring to "Vanilla"' section of the wiki "FNV General Mod Use Advice" article as well.

If you did move Steam out of the default location, then likely any access privilege problem is one of "File and Folder permissions" on the parent "root" folder under which you installed the games. If this is not set correctly to allow at least "System", "Administrators", and "Users" to have "Full Control" then you can't overwrite other files or make changes. You then (while logged in as an "Administrator Account") need to enable the "Properties | Security | Advanced | Change Permissions" setting of the parent folder to enable the box: "Replace all child object permissions with inheritable permissions from this object", so those changes get applied to the existing files and sub-folders.

-Dubious-

Edited September 3, 2020 by dubiousintent

[axonis]

> now I use my guest account on my computer

 

It won't work, guest is severely underprivileged. Use a normal account.