Re: Access denied while using xcopy on XP Home

From: Lawrence Glasser (lglasser@spamcop.net)
Date: 11/20/02


From: Lawrence Glasser <lglasser@spamcop.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:37:06 GMT


Robin Evans wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble with a DOS batch installer program that i'm
> writing. It copies and moves files around as you would expect. It
> works a charm on 98 and XP professional but on trying it on XP
> Home I am encountering a problem:
>
> When XCOPY attempts to move some files (which might be
> encryped, I'm not sure) to a localtion in c:/Documents and
> Settings/%USERNAME%/Application Data/ it gets an access
> denied error message. Furthermore, when these files have been
> moved manually, the application that needs them cannot see
> them.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what might be causing this
> problem or even a solution?

Any chance they're "in use" at the time?

Larry



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