Permission problems

[Denzophage]

So I installed KSP not too long ago. About 2 weeks or so. I played it and nothing was wrong. Today when I tried to play it it launched and took me to the main menu just fine. It then told me that my save file was locked when I tried to start a new sandbox game. I tried to close it and reload the game but then it gave me an error that I do not even have permission to launch the game. So I then uninstalled the game and launched steam as administrator just in case. I then reinstalled the game and I still have the problem. I uninstalled the local content through steam but the files are still in my directory and I can not even open then without it telling me that access is denied and can only be accessed by an administrator. I am the only person who uses this computer and I am the administrator, and it even specifies me. Hell, I just got this laptop for Christmas so i am not sure why I would be having an problem like this. Hell ive never had a problem where I could not get in and root out files of an unwanted program. If someone could help me figure out what to do here that would be great.

[glibbo]

Hi, I have limited experience with this but, have you tried to see or change permissions in the properties / security tab? if you don't get any joy there, there is a registry hack you can download and run, it places a take ownership item in your context menu (right click), which then gives you full permissions, maybe worth a try.

LINK

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

download is at bottom of page, hope it helps.

[Jammer-TD]

I might not suggest a hack without knowing the OS involved(obviously administrator=windows) in most cases "takeown" is a comandline/powershell or a right click in the advanced explorer area for change owner of the root most folder involded()uninherit obects as well. again pending the OS.

alternately you can change the location and map it thru steam for a new library

GL

Jammer

 

[Gordon Fecyk]

On ‎1‎/‎14‎/‎2017 at 1:06 AM, Denzophage said:

I uninstalled the local content through steam but the files are still in my directory and I can not even open then without it telling me that access is denied and can only be accessed by an administrator

I'm a Steam user too. The Steam client is supposed to take care of permissions problems; the "Common" folder in %programfiles%\steam is read-write for non-administrator users to work around broken games that don't behave on current editions of Windows. And no, I won't recant "broken." It seems Unity games in general suffer from this because of how the Unity engine itself is designed. Valve tries really hard to make older pre-XP games work and this usually means breaking the rules for things put in Program Files.

Maybe some process restored the original permissions for the Program Files folder's contents, which includes non-admins (and admins under User Account Control) having only read access to this folder. This is as it should be on a new Windows installation.

Nothing stops you from putting Modify permissions back for the BUILTIN\Users local group for that folder. Just bring up its properties, go to Security, then Edit, and turn on Modify for the "users" group. If you make another Steam-managed folder as Jammer suggests, the client should adjust that folder's permissions as well.

I won't rant, I won't rant, I won't rant...

[radonek]

I recent steam update I noticed a new option to restore b0rked permissions. Though I am stumped how this can happen in a first place. Better check that disk is not dying on you.

[fungiamongi]

Getting basically the same issue.

Problem is that I apparently don't have permission to change permissions either.....


Weird, since I had permissions to add mods to the game, just not delete them, or anything in the gamedata directory.

[Gordon Fecyk]

On ‎1‎/‎26‎/‎2017 at 0:45 PM, fungiamongi said:

Problem is that I apparently don't have permission to change permissions either. Weird, since I had permissions to add mods to the game, just not delete them, or anything in the gamedata directory.

That's the difference between "Modify" and "Full Control" on the simplified permission set on Windows' NTFS file system. Permission to change permissions is part of Full Control, where Modify is permission to change files but not their permissions.

I have a feeling the "Creator Owner" permission, included with default permissions on Program Files and Program Files (x86) where Steam usually sits, is confusing things. The "owner" is whoever created the file or folder, and that will almost always be a local administrator. There's also a difference between an administrator and an elevated administrator; elevation occurs if you answer "yes" to a User Account Control prompt, or if you provide an admin username and password when working as a regular user.

It should be enough to add Modify permission to the "Users" group for the SteamApps \ Common folder to fix this so you can delete files in there. If this isn't enough, let me get in front of my home PC and come up with a better solution.

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[TheKorbinjer]

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Edited February 1, 2017 by TheKorbinger

[fungiamongi]

Well, So the way I had to fix it was by going into the command prompt and cleaning up the C drive.

something got corrupted, dont know how, but man that was frustrating!

[garwel]

I had the same issue and even after I had to do a full reinstall of Windows (because of another, but maybe related problem), I still get access errors in saves and GameData subfolders. For instance, I can't delete files or folders there and sometimes I can't even look inside. The owner of the folders is "unknown". What worked, more or less, is rebooting in safe mode (Shift+click reboot), opening command prompt and takeown command. But it's all super weird and it certainly should not happen.