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are voted up and rise to the top “Access is denied” when a .CMD file tries to copy a file up vote 0 down vote favorite I have a .CMD file that I run by right-clicking on a file in Windows Explorer; the file that I click on gets passed as the parameter to the .CMD file. The .CMD file does some processing and then copies a file windows copy access denied from one folder to another. It worked fine on Windows XP; on Windows 8, when the "copy" command runs, it returns the error message "Access is denied". If I copy the file using Windows Explorer, a dialog box pops up with the message "You'll need to provide administrator permission to copy to this folder". I click on "Continue", and the file gets copied. I don't know the details of UAC, but I know that I don't want to change permissions to allow the file to be copied without intervention. That is, I don't want the whole .CMD file to run as administrator. I want to right-click the input file, run the .CMD file, and have the dialog appear when the "copy" command tries to run; I'll then click on "Continue" to allow only the copy command to run with administrator privilege. (If there were another place in the .CMD file where a file were copied, or any other operation that required administrator privilege, I would want the dialog to appear again, to ask if it's ok to run that operation as administrator). Can this be done? windows-8 command-line share|improve this question edited Oct 7 '13 at 16:50 Moses 8,203134788 asked
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and the intended destination. There are several reasons you might not. by Leo A. Notenboom, © 2007 I have two hard drives on my computer. I have a file on one hard drive and I cannot move (cut & paste) it to my other hard drive. I get "Access is denied." I have looked at the properties for that file and see that the "Read-only" attribute is set. I have 'unset' that attribute but still can't cut and paste the file on the other drive. Can you explain this situation? The file is a TurboTax file I created. Is there a solution? • There are several possible reasons that access to a file might be denied. Some are easy to fix, but others might require a little more investigation on your part. • Read-Only Files This is perhaps the most common case people run into, because it's not always obvious that the read-only attribute might get copied with the file. Your scenario shouldn't be affected by this, but here's a way that it could have been: "... you may be denied access to a file if it's in use by another application." Your original file is marked read-only. Your first attempt to copy the file actually succeeds or fails after the destination file has been created. Unbeknownst to you, the destination file has the read-only flag set because the original file did. Unsetting the read-only doesn't fix anything, because in order to copy the file now you must be able to delete or overwrite the earlier copy in the destination, and the copy is marked read-only. The solution here is to delete the previously copied file, or at least reset its read-only status as well as that of the original file. File In Use Perhaps almost as common, you may be denied access to a file if it's in use by another application. This typically refers to the destination; meaning that if the destination file a