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Windows 10 Home - "Unauthorized changes blocked"
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Anonymous
THIS WAS ANSWERED BY ANDRE DA COSTA ON 12/5/17 - his "fix" worked perfectly - I thought I marked this "ANSWERED" - please check his answer, below this initial post.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/profile/e5564792-9930-4912-828b-e206924b132a
I'm using Windows 10 x64 Home on an HP laptop - Suddenly, I can no longer download photos from my SD card using the port on my laptop and my Photoshop Elements 15 - I get the following messages:
Unauthorized changes blocked
Controlled Folder Access blocked C:...\PhotoDownloader...from making changes to the folder %userprofil...$test$
Or:
Unauthorized changes blocked
Controlled Folder Access blocked C:...\PhotoshopElement...from making changes to the folder %userprofile%\Documents
I want to use Photoshop in order to rename each photo as I download and I'm afraid this is completely blocking my use of Photoshop at all
I'm not computer literate so any help you can give needs to be in detailed, step by step format.
Thank you for any help you can offer
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Anonymous
2018-05-20T05:57:14+00:00 It is basically telling you that you do not have administration authority. You have to go to your account and reestablish yourself as an administrator.
WHW.
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Anonymous
2018-05-18T17:20:10+00:00 Very disappointed that neither MS nor Epson knew this.
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Anonymous
2018-05-14T10:22:18+00:00 tks. it worked .