Having intermittent "you don't have permission to modify files in this network location" errors when saving to a network drive.

Question

Having intermittent "you don't have permission to modify files in this network location" errors when saving program outputs to a network drive. User has the correct permissions and is able to save if they try again. They are directly on the network and physically connected. They are running Windows 10. No specific software seems to trigger it as it will happen for print to pdf or saving CSV output files from multiple files and the error does not always trigger. No other users are reporting the issues. It is more of an annoyance as the user reports it does work after a second attempt but would like the issue not to happen.

Answer 1

Hello,

This may mean that the current account is corrupted. Run the command prompt as an administrator and execute the following two commands to create a new local administrator account:

net user User ****** /add (User is the name of the newly created account, ****** is the password of the account, you can adjust this command yourself)

net localgroup administrators User /add (To grant administrator rights to this account, change User to the account name created in the previous command)

If there are no problems under the account, it means that the profile of the old account is corrupted and cannot be repaired, but you can migrate the profile of the old account to the new account according to the method of "Copying files to the new user profile" in the following link, and then you can use the new account.

Fix a corrupted user profile in Windows - Microsoft Support

Best regards

Zunhui