why do I get the error message Destination Folder Access Denied

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??

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

"Jesper" <Jesper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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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.

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

"david" wrote in message news:200731964714davidnbryant@blueyonder.co.uk...
> 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.
>
> EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> http://www.eggheadcafe.com

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

"Billy" wrote:

> 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
>
> "david" wrote in message news:200731964714davidnbryant@blueyonder.co.uk...
> > 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.
> >
> > EggHeadCafe.com - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
> > http://www.eggheadcafe.com
>
>

[hedgert]

I also have this problem. I installed Eclipse, I put it under Program Files, which took all sorts of repeated confirmations and about 3 hours to copy the files from my users directory.
Having done so, I decided I had the wrong version and tried to delete the directory tree under Program Files. I've managed (again with many repeated confirmations) to delete everything except the eclipse.exe executable and the folder it's in and it's parent.

I've tried both delete (move to bin) and shift delete (direct delete) and in both instances, when I click on delete I get a dialogue box headed:

Destination Folder Access Denied

The box has a Continue shield. When I click it I get the User Account Control dialogue, I click Continue, and then I'm back to the Destination Folder Access Denied box again.

As with Jimmy above, I am administrator and I put the file there in the first place. Seems like I'm stuck with it there?

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Typical shortly after posting I solved the problem. Despite taking admin privileges/confirming seems like it wouldn't allow the file to go into the bin, but when tried various combinations of ctrl-delete ctrl-shift-delete I eventually got a message saying the file was in use. I killed that problem, and then it deleted. Confusing thing was it didn't tell me that originally, just kept popping up the box about the Destination Folder Access Denied thing.