Windows 10: Windows 10: You don't have permission to save in this location.....

What kind of nonsense is this?
It is MY PC & NO ONE-Should be able to tell me that I can't save to anywhere on my computer.
What nit-wit thought this one up? I know they will say it is for my protection! RIGHTTTT!


Been with Microsoft since MS Dos 1


I know this will be deleted, but I am getting tired of MICROSOFT trying to tell what I can do & what I can't do.
Also requiring m me to sign into my account before proceeding with certain things!

 

This is the strangest problem. Like most others, my computer, running Windows 7 Pro, was working smoothly. I updated to Windows 10 Pro and I have mixed results with saving and accessing folders. I can't remember all of the problems, but, for example, I tried to save a new Excel file to a folder and got the message that the folder was Read Only. I then thought I removed the Read Only from the folder Properties, but that didn't work. But I was able to save the same file to the Desktop. What is happening and is there a fix? Is there some way to globally make remove Read Only from all document and picture folders?

 

I think most problems is because the document folder is inside OneDrive which will be sync automatically with cloud. This shouldn't pose a problem if we don't have Homegroup created. We assumed that since we owned the computer and we were the administrators then we should have complete access. Turns out this is not the case. The network setting takes precedence over our ownership. And I think this is the problem since Homegroup setting of Read/Write just take over whatever permissions we (as owner) have.

So, either we remove the Homegroup and use Workgroup instead, or change Homegroup setting making sure that it's shared Read+Write. Personally, I'd prefer to use Workgroup in my network, even though it means i have to setup each user in each computer.

As for saving the documents in other folders than OneDrive, I have no problems. So, I'd suggest to remove Homegroup, or just use Workgroup first.

 

I have had this problem since I installed Win 10 two weeks ago, and I have studied all the solutions hoping to find one which will help me. Unfortunately I am not that confident of delving too deep in case I mess up irrevocably, so the most I dare do is change the permissions in Documents to give my username full access to everything, then go back and remove 'Read Only'. This usually works (although sometimes it takes a couple of goes) unless I reboot when I have to do it all over again, and it is getting very tedious. I was so pleased to see this post about changing the settings of Homegroup and went off to do it straight away, only to be told that there is no Homegroup set up for this machine so I am still no further on. It's really annoying as I like Windows 10, but this problem is spoiling it.

 

Can you create a workgroup instead? When you right click on "This PC", choose properties, and change settings on "Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings". Then choose Network ID, and select "This computer is part of a business network..."

Also, when you change ownership for Documents, if it's in OneDrive folder, make sure that OneDrive has the same ownership as Documents (yours). If it's different, change ownership to your user. If you don't want to mess OneDrive ownership, just make sure you disable inheritance for Onedrive.

The idea is to remove anything that can overwrite your permission of documents folder or at least change it to your username.

 

Thank you very much for your help. I will try your suggestions. Many thanks.

 

"Can you create a workgroup instead? When you right click on "This PC", choose properties, and change settings on "Computer name, domain, and workgroup settings". Then choose Network ID, and select "This computer is part of a business network..."

Then "Is your company network on a domain?"
I guess the answer here at home is NO...correct?

Well it didn't work, I cannot file a simple paint file on the same PC....

 

Choose "... without a domain". It'll create a peer to peer network with just 1 computer but without Homegroup nor permission problem.

Can you save to other folder outside OneDrive?

 

This sounds a lot like User Account Control, something Microsoft introduced with Vista. Even with a user being an administrator it will still prevent you writing to (I believe) non-user filestore i.e. C:\

Its purpose was to increase security for your PC but those upgrading from Windows XP soon found it to be a real PITA. You could disable UAC in Vista through Control Panel and it can also be disabled in Windows 10. However, with Windows 10 if you do disable it then you will find that Windows apps will no longer run because, as it tells you, UAC is not enabled.

This is why I regressed to 8.1, where UAC did not seem to be running as I was able to use the system as I could with XP i.e. no restrictions.

The kicker is that when I regressed to 8.1, write access to C:\ was still not allowed. Thanks Microsoft.

 

I am not a scientific computer guru so please pardon any spelling errors or information I provide. But I had this problem too and was Very close to becoming an Apple user. HOWEVER I have resolved the problem and partly from what I read here.

In the file explorer, right click each file (Pictures, Documents, Music ect) This brings up the properties menu. Click the security tab and click (highlight) your user status. Administrator it seems has full permissions but local user (Also myself) did not, So by click on local user and editing permissions giving myself full permissions then hitting apply (And yes getting an error message) Click yes, continue whatever about ten times and you should see the PC changing permissions in the root. Do this for each folder in the file explorer then reboot. After re-boot verify that you're changes have saved and create a restore point.

Now go back to C drive (Assuming C is your HD) and right click go to properties, Security and you should see permissions for the users and administrators. If not change these here too. I actually did this first.

The result is that I now have re-gained full control of my PC .... Well I hope so at least ...

Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for the info nctxscanner, I will try that.

 

Not sure why that happens to you but I immediately disable UAC as it's more of a pita than adding security to me and even with UAC disabled, I can run any windows app or any program that I wish.

I know that I'd read on these forums from another user that had this issue and of course others like myself that told the person that they can run windows apps fine with UAC turned off/disabled.

 

I tried that, but after rebooting my Security settings went back.

 

Hi
I was unable to save files to the My Documents folder

Having read the above threads, in particular the response by Brink
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html
Look at Option 4, step 5
You can see the owner is TrustedInstaller in his screen capture

On my PC the top level C:/ folder also had this ownership set. Probably the Windows 10 installer changed the ownership to TrustedInstaller. (If I were to go back to Win8.1 I suspect that the ownership would remain set to this.)

When I changed the owner to Administrators everything was OK. No other changes necessary

Thanks to all for the contributions

 

Hi you need to turn UAC back to DEFAULT for some reason.