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Temp directory access denied in Mozilla Firefox
Over the past couple of days a few users have had problems downloading from Firefox. It also started happening with me yesterday and today. When trying to download something (Dell drivers for example), it gives the following error:
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Downloading C:\Users\myusername\AppDat
C:\Users\myusername\AppDat
Change the folder properties and try again, or try saving in a different location.
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I have Firefox set to ask me where to download files, but it doesn't ask, it just gives this error. Even if I set a specific folder to download to, it still gives this error. I then go to Internet Explorer and downloads work just fine. What is going on with this? Did Firefox change something?
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Downloading C:\Users\myusername\AppDat
C:\Users\myusername\AppDat
Change the folder properties and try again, or try saving in a different location.
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I have Firefox set to ask me where to download files, but it doesn't ask, it just gives this error. Even if I set a specific folder to download to, it still gives this error. I then go to Internet Explorer and downloads work just fine. What is going on with this? Did Firefox change something?
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Same problem even running firefox as administrator. I can go directly to my temp folder and add/delete/modify files with no problem. I don't think this is a real permissions issue.
You can try to change the default Download location.
Than, as a last tool, unistall it and install it again. Please do save your bookmarks before installing it.
Than, as a last tool, unistall it and install it again. Please do save your bookmarks before installing it.
ASKER
I did change my locations and it still gives me the error, even though the location is the downloads folder, not the temp folder. I'll try a re-install, but a few people in my company have all had this problem over the past couple of days.
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I'll check into that. I am one of the system admins, so I am pretty sure that didn't happen, but maybe someone else did something like that.
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Found out it was an internal policy change
something has happened with your permissions to Temp folder.
Please try to run Firefox as an Administrator, by right clicking it and Run as Administrator.
See if it can save the download files now.