Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Boost::Filesystem - How to iterate, through the whole drive

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Fwd: Boost::Filesystem - How to iterate, through the whole drive
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-20 13:46:15

On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 15:16, Richard Závodný via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Thank you, looks like you were right. I ran it outside Visual Studio with
> admin rights, but when I ran it in Visual Studio developer console (also
> with admin rights) before (when I tried to solve it with degski), I
> couldn't manage to make it work. Right now it looks like problem is solved,
> but it is weird it needs administrator rights, as I can iterate
> subdirectory on that specific drive (E:) without them. Weird. Thank you
> both for your time. :)
>

Got it now! Win10 is particularly picky about running stuff [or
changing/deleting files] in the root of drives [less so about doing the
same thing in folders], and always asks for elevated privileges [even
though it shouldn't, as I've turned that off in UAC].

I can run the [any] program simply from within the IDE. I now realized that
I [always] run VS20XX with elevated rights [through a short-cut], so that
this problem does not show up [I must have run into this already (long time
ago), I guess].

You can change the elevation of the short-cut [and therefor the program] by
right-clicking the shortcut, Properties -> Shortcut -> Advanced (button),
tick the box "Run as administrator" -> OK. This way it will simply run from
the IDE and you'll be able to debug as well.

degski
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