why do I get the error message Destination Folder Access Denied

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I am new to windows vista. And, I tried to delete a folder of music from my
desktop and it tells me destination Folder Access Denied and I need
permission to perform that action. It is my computer and I am the only user.
How do I delete the folder from my desktop??
Thank you
Amy
 
I am new to windows vista. And, I tried to delete a folder of music from my
desktop and it tells me destination Folder Access Denied and I need
permission to perform that action. It is my computer and I am the only user.
How do I delete the folder from my desktop??
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You get this when you try to delete a folder that you do not have access to
delete. It may be that Administrators have access to delete the folder. If
so, you should get a prompt with a little shield icon on it. That shield icon
is a notification that you need to "elevate" to an administrator to perform
this action. Click that button and you will get a prompt to elevate. Then the
folder will be deleted.
 
So heres my situation I'm copying across my network from my old computer to this one. I am administrator and am copying into my own pictures folder from my old picture folder. Some files come across easily, others of the exact same type, give me the Destination Folder Access Denied BS.

I can deal with a Cancel/Allow, but there is no shield to elevate, and I am the admin.... what gives?

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So heres my situation I'm copying across my network from my old computer to
this one. I am administrator and am copying into my own pictures folder from
my old picture folder. Some files come across easily, others of the exact
same type, give me the Destination Folder Access Denied BS.


Jimmy, this is the second instance of this problem I have seen, and I don't
think we got a resolution on it. I saw your comment on my blog. Any chance
you can use the "contact me" feature on the blog to shot me a mail with more
details? I haven't seen this, but you're the second person complaining of it.
 
Why does Vista seem to take an incredible amount of time to move files from
one disk to another? I find that copying takes 3-4 times longer than XP.

John
 
When I try and copy mp3 files from my laptop(running XP), across the network to my PC (running Vista) I get the "Destination Folder Access Denied" when I try and paste to a folder, even though I have administrator status on both machines.

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I found this happened between Vista machines accross my wireles network too.
The only thing that i foudn was that I coudl copy them and paste them to the
My documents folder in the destination drive adn then transfer them to the
appropriate folder! Don't know why, but this was the solution i used.

Hope that helps

Billy

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When you copied to c:\users\<youruser>\documents it worked? Where were you
originally copying them?
 
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