• Registered: 2011-08-12

Topic: Can't Tag files anymore (Errno13 Permission Denied)

Hey everyone,
I've googled for this problem and lots of people seem to have had it, but I can't find a fix that works for me. I'm running Windows 7 SP1.

I had MB picard 0.12 and used that yesterday to tag some albums in Acer/Music (username is Acer, it's my directory so I have full read/write permissions). I got fed up after about 200 albums though and thought I'd do some more today.

I then found the coverart.py plugin, but it needed 0.15 - I realised I wasn't up to date and so updated to 0.15 with the coverart plugin. After 3 album saves, I can no longer save anything. I get the red stop sign next to each track, along with "errno 13, permission denied". I right clicked the "music" folder and "read-only" was filled in (though not checked) so I unchecked and clicked apply, but it still didn't work. Every time I check it's gone back to filling in. I've logged out and back in to close all programs still no luck.

I've also tried running as administrator and various other things. I really could do with sorting out my collection and now I've got the motivation the software has let me down (or more likely my computer :P). Any tips?

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Can't Tag files anymore (Errno13 Permission Denied)

Did you do your initial tagging ("the 3 album saves") after running Picard straight from the installer? (i.e clicking the "Run Picard now" checkbox that you get asked when installation is complete)

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  • Registered: 2011-08-12

Re: Can't Tag files anymore (Errno13 Permission Denied)

They must have been. I just re-installed and didn't close the program and it worked. Closing and re-opening gives the error.

Any ideas then? It'd be nice to not have to re-install every time, but at least I have a temporary fix :)

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Can't Tag files anymore (Errno13 Permission Denied)

Do you mean you continued running Picard from the installer? If this is what fixes it, I'd imagine running as administrator should achieve the same thing. But you really shouldn't have to do this. What may have happened is that when running Picard as admin you created files/folders with Administrator permissions and now your regular Windows account doesn't have permissions on them.

This part always confuses even me, but I believe you should be able to fix it by either taking ownership with your regular user account of all the files/folders you changed or manually changing permissions on the files.

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  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Can't Tag files anymore (Errno13 Permission Denied)

For what it's worth, you might want to create an account and "vote" on the ticket to try and address the underlying issue that looks like it caused permissions on your files to be screwed up here.

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  • Registered: 2011-08-12

Re: Can't Tag files anymore (Errno13 Permission Denied)

Ok so this is weird. Initially it was working, but after a while it didn't, even though I hadn't closed it! Running as admin didn't work, I haven't tried changing ownership (I will do though) but I shouldn't have to - it's in the /acer/music folder, which is owned by Acer (i.e my account). Very odd :(

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: Can't Tag files anymore (Errno13 Permission Denied)

Perhaps some of the files in that folder have ended up with different permissions though? FWIW, I always have weird problems like this when I rebuild my PC and retain music on the same NTFS HDD I used in the old system (as it retains credentials designed for the old PC). I've never fully worked it out, but I've often had to spend time changing ownership recursively, and sometimes also telling it to replace permission on all child objects from the root dir and stuff like that. It sucks. :/

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