When I tried to access the folder I received the following message: You don’t currently have permission to access this folder. I did have Read Only checked, and every time I tried to change it, Read only was reverting back in Windows 10.īut there was more. My first guess was the Read Only setting in the folder options and I was right.

I went to the folder where the problem file was located and found another interesting thing about it – I didn’t have permissions to do anything with the files in the folder even though I had an administrative account (the only account on this PC). So I went to check what was going on and found the following message in the log.ĭropbox can’t sync the file access denied.

I noticed that after a few days of syncing my local files with the cloud, I still had some thousands of files to be synced. One of the programs I use on all my devices is the Dropbox cloud service and due to this program, I found an interesting problem accessing my files and folders from the previous version of Windows. Luckily this process doesn’t take long due to beloved service of bulk program installation we told you about in one of our previous articles . Preamble (you can skip it and pass to the solution below)Īfter upgrading my Windows 7 to Windows 10, I started to install necessary programs that I use daily.

Windows 10 get permission from system