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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
2018-08-31T22:40:17+00:00 Wow! After MONTHS of speaking with Microsoft and HP representatives, THIS finally solved my issue. I received the 'Unauthorized changes blocked' when trying to save Word documents on my laptop. Thank you for posting.
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Anonymous
2018-08-20T16:34:50+00:00 Very precisely said.
This is the problem Microsoft need to resolve.
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Anonymous
2018-08-20T16:31:02+00:00 I dont wanna hide the problem, I want to solve it.
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Anonymous
2018-08-08T15:58:23+00:00 Mydna, That's a very well-reasoned reply. Basically, the stock answer to this, as I see it, is to simply not allow any programs access. IMO, the OS should be able to determine, for the most part, what should be allowed access and what should not. Perhaps that's the situation, now; I really don't know. Thanks, again, for a very good analysis.