System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\phil\Documents' is denied - how to fix after I've exhausted Security Changes

i've never seen this error message before. I got this when i tried to save a PDF from this program. Download - NAPS2

A search led me to this video, so I added "everyone" to the permissions list how do I fix error System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\phil\Documents' is denied

Still no joy. I really like this nap2 scanner program. All I need to do is be able to save scans into some directory. I can fully replace the HP bloated and buggy software for my HP 9010e AIO.

Did you enable Controlled Folder Access?

pseymour said:

Did you enable Controlled Folder Access?

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@pseymour

Something that had not occurred to me. However, I have BitDefender Total Security installed, so here is the relevant options panel I o;ened the BitDefender settings panel and I didn't see anything about Controlled Folder Access.

Could Controlled Folder Access be ON, even though I am not using Defender?

I'm not sure. Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Windows Defender Exploit Guard\Controlled Folder Access. See if there's a value called EnableControlledFolderAccess and if it's set to 1 (enabled).

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I'm not sure. Look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Windows Defender Exploit Guard\Controlled Folder Access. See if there's a valucalled EnableControlledFolderAccess and if it's set to 1 (enabled).

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Darn. I as hoping that a mis-set registry key was the problem. All the keys in ControlledFolderAccess have no values set. After I did some futzing around with Securty Permissions I notied that user phil, has grey checkmarks. I've never seen that before. , (that's me the logged in user) Standard Account, not Admin. Also same for Administrators and System



But here it gets even weirder. There is another user account, also standard, where the checkmarks are black..

If the check marks are grey, it's inheriting permissions from a parent folder. This is normal for the Documents folder; it should be getting permissions from your %USERPROFILE% folder by default. The black checkmark ones are permissions specifically on that folder/file.