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Powershell - Access to the path denied....

Ok, this is driving me crazy...I opened PS as "Run as administrator" and also as "different user" (which is domain admin), I have local admin rights to my computer and am part of domain admin and I still get access denied trying to save this file to the C drive.
I also ran "Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned".

Any help?

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Process | export-csv -path c:\
export-csv : Access to the path 'C:\' is denied.
At line:1 char:15
+ Get-Process | export-csv -path c:\
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (:) [Export-Csv], UnauthorizedAccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : FileOpenFailure,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.ExportCsvCommand

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SubSun

You need to add the file name....

Get-Process | export-csv c:\report.csv -NTI

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Qlemo

The error is thrown because you can't write a folder, only files. Its text sounds strange and misleading, but indeed it is "correct".

Raheman M. Abdul

Get-Process | export-csv -path c:\filename.csv -force

Try set-executionpolicy unrestricted and see if the above works.

Raheman M. Abdul

Try his:
Enable "SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege", using the example in this link http://channel9.msdn.com/Forums/Coffeehouse/Powershell-subinacl-ownership-of-directories

$acl = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.DirectorySecurity
$acl.SetOwner([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount]'BUILTIN\Administrators')
(Get-Item "C:\").SetAccessControl($acl)

Qlemo

marahman3001,

We already located the primary source of that error message and elaborated in depth about it. It is NOT an access privilege issue.