?Rename fails silently if no permissions

[sweetsour]

Win8.1 + TC 8.5 x64

I tried to rename a folder, and I had no permissions to do that (I think NTFS permissions). It just failed silently, as if the operation was successful (it was not). There was no error window, or a window asking for admin privileges.

In Windows Explorer I could rename it, it asked me for admin privileges.

[ghisler(Author)]

I cannot confirm. I just tried the following:
1. Go to c:\Program files
2. Try to rename a folder with Shift+F6

Result: I'm getting an error message. When I choose "As Administrator", the folder is renamed as expected. Tested on Windows 8.1 x64 with TC x64.

[sweetsour]

Yes actually I cannot do it simply either.

The buggy folder was on a HDD taken from another PC, therefore the NTFS permissions had user IDs which were unknown on this system. And my user had no permission. I think it might have been connected to that.

[ghisler(Author)]

I see - then even admin rights wouldn't help.

[sweetsour]

Well Windows Explorer asked for admin rights and it was able to rename it.

[ghisler(Author)]

That's strange because admin user doesn't see the same shares as logged in user...

[HolgerK]

Well, i guess the reason behind this is that Explorer asks for admin rights to change the permissions:

You don’t currently have permission to access this folder. Click Continue to permanently get access to this folder.

After that even TC should have no problem to rename files in these locations.

2sweetsour
The following may be a workaround to not to start explorer to adapt permissions for folders created by other systems:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/add-take-ownership-to-explorer-right-click-menu-in-vista/

Regards
Holger

[ghisler(Author)]

I prefer not to change the permissions - they are there for a good purpose, and the directories should remain protected during normal work.