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Acces Is Denied, all solutions I could find did not work
Hello everyone,
At the moment I am trying to install Star Wars Battlefront 2 on steam. It was previously downloaded, but when a modpack installer tried to do it's thing, it reported that it could not access a file. Sure enough, it couldn't, and after that steam reported 'Missing file privileges' and could not repair the original installation.
I went through the file explorer to the location of the offending file. I could not open it (Access Is Denied error), so I attempted to take ownership.
This is what I found:
I was unable to take ownership because I (as the sole account, and as an administrator account) lacked permission to "view or edit this object's permission settings."
I enabled the hidden administrator account, and attempted to do the same thing through that. I was met with the same outcome.
I've been struggling to deal with these Access is Denied errors for months, usually taking ownership would fix it (though this is not the first time that it hasn't). I haven't got a clue what to do from here, and all the time I've spent looking through existing forums, posts, articles, videos, etc. about them hasn't actually helped at all.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.