Windows 10: My folder keeps Rechecking itself as Read-Only!

Hi, I'm using DesktopServer to develop local sites on my Win 10 computer. I don't recall this ever happening before but now when I tried to create a website by importing my backup archive, I get this error about not being able to write and update...




...which then leads to this, probably because it could not write in the first place:




From my research I found that this should be solved by enabling write permissions on the correct folder...but the problem is that folder keeps putting itself back into Read-Only mode the moment I click OK.





So because it won't stay UNCHECKED, I keep getting the error which prevents me from importing a new web project on my local dev environment.

Hoping someone hear will know how to make the settings STICK.

:)

 

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Hi Azaruddin. Were you able to figure out a way to keep the read only option in the folder unchecked? As I said before, when I reboot the computer windows has rechecked the folder.

 

Read only keeps enabling itself, even after I've enabled it

Hello,



Thank you for your response. I appreciate your time.

I would suggest you to run the DISM Tool.

If the issue persists, I would have you run the DISM tool to check the system health and will try to restore the files.

1. Right click on the Start button, click on
Command Prompt (Admin).

2. In the Administrator: Command Prompt window, type the following commands. Press the
Enter key after each command:

• 
  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth
  
  
• 
  DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth
  

3. To close the Administrator: Command Prompt window, type
Exit, and then press Enter.

Note: The tool might take 15-20 minutes to finish running, so please do not cancel it.

Hope this helps.

 

Have you tried clicking 'Apply'?

 

Yes. Apply. Then OK. This "DesktopServerTemp" folder appears to create itself during the import process (of a website) and then deletes itself once complete. But during that process it creates itself as Read-Only.

 

The location you show would not be available for non administrators of the system and would also be marked as a hidden/ System folder.

Although you may be able to change the security of that actual folder to allow everyone access the best and easiest/most secure method would be to change the location to somewhere in your user folders, eg Documents, or create a separate data folder somewhere off the root and point to there. eg. c:\websites

 

1. I'm set to SHOW these hidden files/folders.
2. I'm the admin.

This folder location used by DesktopServer as its temp location when importing a site does not appear something I can control.

Do you have any suggestions?

 

Until the software design is updated to what has been standard since at least windows 7, the only option you have is to go to that temp folder and right click the folder go to the security tab and either specifically add your user name to have full control of the folder or everyone to have this full control

The appdata folder is designed with the protection it has for security reasons so any changes here will reduce the security of your system to some degree. but it should be ok

 

I just checked and all are currently set to FULL CONTROL for ...\AppData\Local

Only row with no checkmark is Special Permissions (at the bottom)

??

FWIW, I've also tried this on my laptop with a previous version of the software and got the same error.

 

Have you tried running the DesktopServer as administrator, (right click on .exe and Run As Administrator), as due to the dual token security system on all Windows since Vista, you are actually running as a standard user by default, and have to salivate to get full Admin privileges

 

Yes I do. They explicitly tell users to do so, and so I make sure I do.

 

You are doing everything correctly so it should work *Confused

Is there anyway to retrieve the backup without the DesktopServer program and/or manually load it into DesktopServer?

one thing you could try is to manually elevate the File Explorer (Explorer.exe - run as Admin) and see if that allows you to remove the read only flag

 

how does one elevate the File Explorer?

 

File Explorer is Explorer.exe, hit the start button, and start typing Explorer, a list of programs will appear, right click on the Explorer one and choose run as administrator. If you think you'll need it often you can make a shortcut to Explorer.exe set to always run as administrator *Smile

 

Thanks Nigel - I have not implemented your latest suggestion yet because I noticed that despite the errors thrown the website imported properly. I am also experimenting with importing a different website to see if the same thing happens. From one experiment, I see that these errors were NOT reproduced when importing a different website... however, a different issue came up with that one. When I click the website link in the Sites page generated by DesktopServer, it opens this one with an extra www prefix in the URL. So I can't view or login to the site because it keeps redirecting to the URL that contains "www.www...."

Do you have any thoughts on what would be causing this, or how to fix it? You seem to know a bit about this kind of stuff...