Access Denied even after elevating cmd

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Access Denied even after elevating cmd

laroshkhan opened this issue 3 years ago · 4 comments

Hello Team,

Thanks for developing this tool. I was trying to run it on my PC(windows), just installed python and ran it as explained by you, however, I am seeing a lot of access denied(even after opening cmd as admin and running if from there).

Is there a way to give it privilges?

Answer 1 · 2021-12-15T09:59:16.000Z

I have looked into this issue and it seems it's caused by some special directories, for example:

PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'c:/users/Default\\Templates'

However when I check this directory myself in c:/users/default, there is no Templates directory, however I can change directory to it using cd, but there is nothing in it. I'm not a Windows expert so I have no idea about this behaviour.

I think it's safe to ignore these Access Denieds, and run without -v. However if you do see a file or directory that could not be scanned but should be, let me know!

Answer 2 · 2021-12-15T10:54:21.000Z

I just tried to run the scan on my whole C drive and used --v to see and it seems to be denied in all of my directories.

Answer 3 · 2021-12-15T11:53:37.000Z

Those are expected errors, since most of those are system directories. You can safely ignore these errors.

Answer 4 · 2021-12-15T13:13:37.000Z

Thanks for the update. I will keep testing it and will report any issues.