Vista Permissions Issue

[worldsmart02]

I'm using Vista Ultimate and I'm unable to save files to the root drive. I
can create folders on the root drive and save within them, however I cannot
save a file to that drive.

I am the administrator of the computer and it appears I have full control. What's the problem here which will prevent me from saving files.

 

[hclarkjr]

you might need to take ownership of the folder

 

[Smilin]

Try running your application as an admin. If you are just wishing to copy files there run explorer as an admin.

It's not the greatest idea to write stuff there. You could simultaneously follow best practice and dodge the whole issue by writing elsewhere.

 

[QuixoticOne]

You need to "Run As Administrator" explorer.exe. If you make a shortcut to it or search for it you can right-mouse-button click on that icon to find the Run As Administrator option.

Leave it to Vista's brain damaged design to let someone be logged into an Administrator level account and NOT give them a prominent "DO IT ANYWAY" override on such things.

I think I lost a few GBy of data when I assumed explorer was showing me all the files that ADMINISTRATORS had read access to when in fact it just showed blank folders as if they were empty but in reality they were full of files belonging to another user but it didn't indicate that at all though I was logged in to an administrator account.
So of course the stuff didn't get backed up when I did a drag-drop copy. Damn Microsoft.

Don't take ownership of the drive's root, though, not at least the system OS drive... bad bad bad.