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vegasmazza3

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Sometimes when I download a file off the internet with Chrome (most recent example an image) to my external hard drive, I get an error message "You don't have permission to modify files in this network location". A file gets saved that doesn't seem to be anything (just the name and a shell). If I try downloading the same file again, it asks me to replace the original file. Say yes, and then it downloads and saves just fine (at least it seems like it).

With some searching, I found that people with NOD32 antivirus had the problem, but I have Kaspersky. I'm thinking it might be a similar thing... Mainly, I want to make sure that this is just an annoyance thing, and that once the files do seem to save, there isn't anything wrong with them or the files wouldn't be different from if they would have just saved the first time. Running Windows 7 64bit. Thanks for your help.
 
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Wow. Strange one. I'm almost not wanting to believe this as it is not a typical security problem. Well, if you were running Linux I might, but your not. :)

Check your browsers default download location and verify it is still valid. Next, check the permissions on that folder, (Properties) and see who owns it and the permissions are set up to allow your user to read,write, modify files.

Are you downloading to a local drive or to a network attached location?


Here's one link but I'm not so sure it helps:
http://www.techyv.com/questions/how-get-around-jdownloader-no-permissions-write-hard-disk

This is a strange one that I wouldn't ignore. I'm usually very paranoid about viruses and such on my own computers but I don't like to jump to the conclusion or say such to others as I'm almost always wrong when I find the solution. :)
 
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The default download location is my desktop, but I'm not saving to there. The files are being downloaded to a folder on an external hard drive connected via USB. Also, after not downloading the first time (getting that error), if I do it again it works, replacing the shell (corrupted?) file that got downloaded in the first place.

When I was referring to the other forum I referenced, here is the link http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=254272

Mainly I just want to make sure that once the file does successfully download, that it is the same as it would have been had I not had the issue (I think it's fine, but like to make sure)

 
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Got you. Very Strange because if you don't have security you don't have it. To not have security to write and yet a 'shell' gets written is an oxymoron. Then once the empty file ( I'll assume that by 'shell' you mean an empty file) the file is overwritten. That may be a modification right vs the ability to write to the folder, but it's still not making any sense to me. :( sorry.

I read the postings that you linked to. Sorry for those people that a security company could screw up bad as that.

I would write this up for your AV companies website as well as here just in case they went down the same path of development as Norton. Unlikely though.

The USB drive will work differently than a network drive for security. It might be a driver issue. It might be a file system corruption issue. Run scandisk on it. Check the root file of the external drive for permissions, ownership and follow the path down to the folder that you are writing to.

I hope that you find an answer as I personally would not give up on this one as it is too bizare and might be pointing to a more serious problem, like the external drive's boards are failing. (doubt that).

Good Luck. Perhaps someone else with this problem will chime in.
 
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Scandisk? You mean chkdsk?

For the other things, I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about... and even if I found it, I'm not really sure what to look for or what to alter. I'm kind of nervous to alter permissions because I don't want to *really* mess things up.

 
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Yes, chkdsk is what you run from the DOS Shell (CMD.exe) but it's also called Scandisk when referring to the GUI mostly. :)

By looking at permissions you would right click on the drive and you'll see at the bottom of the context menu a "properties". Within that option are the 'security' which is where the permissions are. You can safely review them but you are correct to not mess with them if you aren't familiar with them.

If you look at another of folders and such you'll see a pattern. So long as you stick to the USB folders you can't harm anything else except perhaps denying yourself access to a folder should you remove permissions, but it wouldn't be difficult to figure out how to fix that.

Hopefully someone will have an idea as to why this is happening.

Question that I should have asked before is, Is this happening only to the USB drive or if you download to a folder on your harddrive does the problem still occur?
 
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