Access to the path is denied

[realm174]

Hello people, it's been a while...

I'm trying to rename a folder located inside the %appdata% folder. I can do it in Windows Explorer no problem, but I can't do it in a batch file, nor can I do it in vb.net. Here's what I have for code:

Public Class Form1
    Public RootFolder As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)

    Private Sub btnPlay14_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnPlay14.Click
        'Rename the folders
        Try
            My.Computer.FileSystem.RenameDirectory(RootFolder & "\.minecraft.1.4", ".minecraft")
            'do other stuff... 
        Catch ex As Exception
        End Try
    End Sub
End Class

The source folder does exist, and the destination does not.

When running the code, it gets to the renamedirectory line, and jumps to the catch. Exception error is:

"Access to the path 'C:\Users\Real\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft.1.4' is denied."

I'm going to guess that it's because AppData is a protected folder? Anyway to get around that?

thanks!


Cheers,

Realm174

 

[jebenson]

Try setting the directory's attributes to Normal and see if it works:


Public RootFolder As String = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ApplicationData)


System.IO.File.SetAttributes(RootFolder & "\.minecraft.1.4", System.IO.FileAttributes.Normal);



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[realm174]

Thank you for your response, that did not work unfortunately. Nothing wrong with your line of code, it went through it without error, but I'm still getting the error at the rename line.



Cheers,

Realm174