Access to the path denied error in C#

You are trying to create a FileStream object for a directory (folder). Specify a file name (e.g. @”D:\test.txt”) and the error will go away. By the way, I would suggest that you use the StreamWriter constructor that takes an Encoding as its second parameter, because otherwise you might be in for an unpleasant surprise when … Read more

TFS 2012 Build “Access to Path Denied”

As others mentioned, this happens when performing multithreaded builds with a common destination directory and the file copy task happens to encounter a simultaneous conflict with a copy task running for a different project. Normally this should result in a “file used by another process” exception (which is handled and retried by the file copy … Read more

Access denied while getting process path

Finally I managed to solve it. As it turned out there is new function in Vista and above for getting process path and new process access (PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION): QueryFullProcessImageName Here is the code that works from non-elevated process: private static string GetExecutablePathAboveVista(UIntPtr dwProcessId) { StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder(1024); IntPtr hprocess = OpenProcess(ProcessAccessFlags.PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION, false, dwProcessId); if … Read more

Avoid Java 8 Files.walk(..) termination cause of ( java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException ) [duplicate]

Answer Here is a temporary solution , which can be improved to use Java 8 Streams and Lambdas. int[] count = {0}; try { Files.walkFileTree( Paths.get(dir.getPath()), new HashSet<FileVisitOption>(Arrays.asList(FileVisitOption.FOLLOW_LINKS)), Integer.MAX_VALUE, new SimpleFileVisitor<Path>() { @Override public FileVisitResult visitFile(Path file, BasicFileAttributes attrs) throws IOException { System.out.printf(“Visiting file %s\n”, file); ++count[0]; return FileVisitResult.CONTINUE; } @Override public FileVisitResult visitFileFailed(Path file, … Read more

Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’

Start mysql client in the console and execute this query: select Host, User from mysql.user;. You MUST have a row like this: +—————-+——————+ | Host | User | +—————-+——————+ | localhost | root | +—————-+——————+ a row with “localhost” in Host and “root” in User. If you don’t have it that’s the cause of your … Read more