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Media conformance checker
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Media Conch didn't start #663

Open boecki-online opened 5 years ago

boecki-online commented 5 years ago

I have a problem because Media Conch didn't start on my PC. I'm nit sure if here is the right place to discuss. I get this error: Unable to write implementation schema file. Check write permissions on MediaConch data directory.

I have this problem in the GUI and in the Comand line tool. Is there somebody who could help me?

I'm using Win10 Pro

Many thanks

JeromeMartinez commented 5 years ago

We try to create some files we need for the processing in "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\MediaConch". This directory need to be accessible by the tool, with write permission (by default it is the case, so is there something special on your machine which prevent a tool to create this directory with default permissions?)

pjotrek-b commented 4 years ago

A student of mine just encountered the same issue (also Windows 10), but I'm pretty sure he didn't change anything in these folders (and also I asked him). He also installed it again as Administrator: Same behavior.

I'd be curious if anyone has any idea what could cause this folder's permissions to become unwriteable with "normal user behavior" on a Windows machine. Any ideas?

New funky Windows "security" creativity? :wink:

I've attached a screenshot to add colors :smile: MediaConch-InstallationErrorMsg-WritePermissions

btw: I think the "\" before "%USERNAME%" is missing (needs "\\" - github thought it's an escape character?). So it's: C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\MediaConch".

camardo commented 4 months ago

I encountered this same error using MediaConch CLI on Ubuntu. If anyone is curious, I was able to get around the problem by changing permissions of ~/.local/share/MediaConch and the files within.