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Question by DDerby1 · Jun 24, 2016 at 07:21 PM · installing

Copy file failed access is denied

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After installing unity for the first time I've received this error. I've uninstalled and reinstalled at least 3 times, i've tried different builds same thing. I'm using windows 10, and im running it as admin,

if anyone knows how to fix this i would be thankful.

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avatar image AlanMW · Feb 11, 2017 at 08:47 AM 0
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@DDerby1 Having the exact same issue, any updates?

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Answer by AnomalusUndrdog · Dec 21, 2018 at 05:02 PM

Weirdly enough, this kind of error happened to me simply because I have a Windows Explorer opened on a folder I was trying to move. My fix was simply to close that window.

An access denied error generally means that folder/file is opened somewhere else and made a "lock" on it, preventing other apps from deleting/moving that file/folder. So check what other programs you have running, and make sure they don't have the folder/file in question opened.

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avatar image prajwalshetty2018 · Jan 09, 2020 at 11:36 AM 0
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This resolved my issue, thanks.

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Yes it helped. Thanks.

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Answer by sam_nau · Jul 07, 2018 at 11:03 PM

The cause of my file access denied issues was actually very simple: Google Drive. Even though I hadn’t told it to include my project files in the file sync, it was still including them anyway. And the very annoying fact was if a file was syncing, access to it was locked on my PC. I disconnected my Drive and all the errors went away. I’ll just have to stick with the web interface, I guess.

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Thanks a bunch! I just quit Backup and Sync and everything worked fine.

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Answer by AlanMW · Feb 12, 2017 at 09:02 AM

After many hours of research I am back with the solution. I found this post:

I found packages unityeditor-cloud-hub-0.0.1.tgz and unity-editor-home-0.0.7.tgz in C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\Resources\Packages. Create folders node_modules\unityeditor-cloud-hub and node_modules\unity-editor-home in C:\Users\%user_name%\AppData\Roaming\Unity\Packages. Extract dist and package.json from unityeditor-cloud-hub-0.0.1.tgz into unityeditor-cloud-hub, dist and package.json from unity-editor-home-0.0.7.tgz into unity-editor-home

and because it was a bit old it didn't solve the solution completely, I'm guessing. Inside your install location (C:\Program Files\Unity\Editor\Data\Resources\Packages) you may also find "unityeditor-collab-history-0.4.10.tgz" and "unityeditor-collab-toolbar-0.4.12.tgz" you must also create folders for those in the Appdata folder and extract them to their respective folder.

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Here I am again, months later with the most recent update running into the exact same problem... Glad I left a detailed solution :)

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