Unable to save file to desktop - no permission(?)

[Roberts, Michael]

Good Afternoon List,

 

I would like to know whether anyone has experienced the following problem:  When saving to my desktop, I am now getting the following message – “C:\Documents and Settings\blah blah blah...  You do not have permissions to save in this directory” ????  I am able to save in any folder on the desktop, however. 

 

I have always been able to save data files on my desktop while I was working, and this message is only with SPSS (ver.17.0.2), and is of recent origin (last month or so).  No other application does this? 

 

Can it be that I have too many desktop icons/folders/objects?  Does anyone know if SPSS has some limiting criteria related to desktop objects?  Also, does Java have anything to do with it?  I believe there have been a few version updates so far.  

 

TIA

 

Mike

[Jarrod Teo-2]

Hi Mike,

I had this problem before in SPSS version 18. However, I was trying to save on the C drive and I am on the administrator account which also shows a message saying that I do not have permission to save on the C drive.

Are you on the administrator account?

Regards
Dorraj Oet

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:58:27 -0500
From: [hidden email]
Subject: Unable to save file to desktop - no permission(?)
To: [hidden email]

Good Afternoon List,

 

I would like to know whether anyone has experienced the following problem:  When saving to my desktop, I am now getting the following message �C “C:\Documents and Settings\blah blah blah...  You do not have permissions to save in this directory” ????  I am able to save in any folder on the desktop, however. 

 

I have always been able to save data files on my desktop while I was working, and this message is only with SPSS (ver.17.0.2), and is of recent origin (last month or so).  No other application does this? 

 

Can it be that I have too many desktop icons/folders/objects?  Does anyone know if SPSS has some limiting criteria related to desktop objects?  Also, does Java have anything to do with it?  I believe there have been a few version updates so far.  

 

TIA

 

Mike

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[Roberts, Michael]

Dorraj,

 

Thank you for your input.  I do have administrator privileges on my machine ( I am able to install software, map drives, etc.), which means I do have permissions for all folders, drives, etc. so I am not sure where this permissions issue is coming from.  This only pertains to SPSS, since I can still save to the desktop from other applications.  I will check the archives to see if anyone else has experienced this issue.

 

Thank You, again.

 

Sincerely

Mike

 

From: DorraJ Oet [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 10:42 PM
To: Roberts, Michael; SPSS Syntax help
Subject: RE: Unable to save file to desktop - no permission(?)

 

Hi Mike,

I had this problem before in SPSS version 18. However, I was trying to save on the C drive and I am on the administrator account which also shows a message saying that I do not have permission to save on the C drive.

Are you on the administrator account?

Regards
Dorraj Oet

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:58:27 -0500
From: [hidden email]
Subject: Unable to save file to desktop - no permission(?)
To: [hidden email]

Good Afternoon List,

 

I would like to know whether anyone has experienced the following problem:  When saving to my desktop, I am now getting the following message – “C:\Documents and Settings\blah blah blah...  You do not have permissions to save in this directory” ????  I am able to save in any folder on the desktop, however. 

 

I have always been able to save data files on my desktop while I was working, and this message is only with SPSS (ver.17.0.2), and is of recent origin (last month or so).  No other application does this? 

 

Can it be that I have too many desktop icons/folders/objects?  Does anyone know if SPSS has some limiting criteria related to desktop objects?  Also, does Java have anything to do with it?  I believe there have been a few version updates so far.  

 

TIA

 

Mike

 

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