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: Richard Závodný (zavodnyrichard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-20 15:43:49

Thank you, it makes sense now. :)

On 11/20/2018 2:46 PM, degski wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 15:16, Richard Závodný via Boost-users 
> <boost-users_at_[hidden] <mailto: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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