Open theendsofinvention opened 6 years ago
Sentry issue: ESST-3K
This is probably caused by a Windows security feature that prevents programs running as Administrator (such as ESST) from affecting Program Files. This is not unique to ESST. The only known way to solve is to A) enable ESST to run without admin permissions, or B) give the logged in user the rights to the Program FIles directory (my preferred method).
(Yes, I understand it's counter-intuitive to think of a program running with admin permissions like ESST to not have permission to a directory, but that is an intentional security feature design since Windows 8)
I'm unaware of the way Win8/Win10 manage their UAC.
My idea was to implement the following:
https://sentry.io/etcher/esst/issues/687778677/