Access denied errors copying with BC3, but fine with BC2

[sjn]

I regularly synchronise from a network location (XP Pro sp3) to a USB drive attached to my local Vista PC. However with BC3.07 I keep getting access denied errors overwriting older files, but if I use BC2 everything works fine.

I have used Process Monitor to get some more information and BC3 is getting access denied from the CreateFile call on the existing target file on the USB drive. I am using TrueCrypt encryption on the USB drive and when I have time I'll try another test on a standard partition on the same drive, but of course BC2 has been working fine on several encrypted drives for a long time.

Any suggestions?

[Aaron]

Hello,

Are your Errors consistant if you attempt to move the same file multiple times, does it prompt multiple times?
In BC2, the same pair of files will copy without issue?

[sjn]

Yes BC3 will fail each time. I've just tried five times in a row with BC3 and each time it showed the same access denied errors and then I switched to BC2 and it worked first time.

One other point I've noticed is that the files in question were all in the hidden 'CVS' folder that CVS uses, however I tried removing the hidden attribute and that made no difference.

[Aaron]

Hello,

Try copying just one CVS Folder (or file inside of the folder) with each of: My Computer, BC2, BC3. Does it copy successfully (double check contents, size, timestamp) with My Computer and BC2, but not BC3?

Is the Access Denied error a System Error Code 5: Access Denied?

http://www.scootersoftware.com/support.php?zz=kb_accessdenied.php

[sjn]

Apologies - I've found the cause and it's my fault.

As I use BC2 for checking folder virtualisations in Vista, I had set the exe (not the shortcut) some time ago to always run as admin. So even though I checked both shortcuts for 'run as admininstrator' it wasn't until I checked the integrity level of the running instance of BC2 versus BC3 that I spotted the difference. There are a few folders on the target drive that have had permissions copied over at some point - hence the access denied!