While attempting to save a file in a folder or while accessing a folder on a Windows 10 PC, you might get “You don’t currently have permission to access this folder, click Continue to permanently get access this folder” error.
Clicking the Continue button shows “You have been denied permission to access this folder. To gain access to this folder, you will need to use the security tab” error.
Windows 10 displays the error above when your user account doesn’t have enough permission to access the folder. If you are the administrator on the PC or know the administrator password, you can easily fix the error by adding required permissions to access the folder.
You currently don’t have permission to access this folder
Step 1: Right-click on the folder that you are unable to access to or save files in and then click Properties option.
Step 2: Switch to the Security tab. Under Group or user names section, click the Edit button to open the Permissions dialog.
Step 3: Under Group or user names section, select your current user account.
Step 4: Under Permissions for UserAccountName, check if boxes are selected under Deny column. If yes, uncheck them and then click Apply. It should fix the issue.
If they are not selected or grayed out, click the Add button.
Step 5: In the Enter the object names to select box, type Everyone, click Check Names button and then click OK button.
Step 6: Finally, in the Group or user names section, select Everyone, check Full control under Permissions for Everyone (Allow column) section, and then click Apply button. Click OK.
If you are still unable to access the folder, we advise you scan your PC with a good antivirus software.
Sasha Ross says
Worked liked a charm! TYVM!
Don McFarland says
Your solution worked perfectly for me. I was able to share folders from the other 3 machines in my all windows 10 home network, but not from the one that brought me here to your page. I had tried on multiple occasions with this machine, and everything appeared to be set correctly. The same account is used on all of them, so it’s hard to explain. Fewer steps were required on the other machines. Thank you so much !
John T O'Connell says
I just got a new computer, and connected them both to my home network in order to transfer files. It worked once, but the new Windows had created a new userid which was the first 5 characters of my email address (Microsoft ID). Some of the files had the userid on the old machine in the path name, and were “not found”. So I created the same userid on the new machine and now it cannot access any files on the old machine. It says to see the network administrator, but that IS ME!!
I tried everything I could find to allow file sharing, but when I click on the machine name in the network list it gets the access denied error.