FireMarshalBill69
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📎 AI Summary:
The original poster is experiencing permission issues when copying large files, despite being an administrator, due to Windows security features like User Account Control (UAC) and file permissions. A respondent explains that permissions and integrity levels (labels) influence file access, and that users often operate at a medium privilege level, requiring elevation (via UAC) to perform certain actions. The overall guidance suggests checking that the user has proper permissions and that the file labels are set appropriately to resolve the copying issue.
The original poster is experiencing permission issues when copying large files, despite being an administrator, due to Windows security features like User Account Control (UAC) and file permissions. A respondent explains that permissions and integrity levels (labels) influence file access, and that users often operate at a medium privilege level, requiring elevation (via UAC) to perform certain actions. The overall guidance suggests checking that the user has proper permissions and that the file labels are set appropriately to resolve the copying issue.
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Couple of things come into play when accessing files. Permissions and labels.
Labels have to do with your current rights elevation while permissions are what you are allowed to do with directories and files.
Labels are low, medium and high. Most everything runs at a medium privilege label except for some browser processes run in low and the built-in administrator account runs in high.
So you need the current permissions as well as to be running in the correct label. Even as an user that belongs to the administrators group your user account still runs in medium for almost everything. The UAC prompt is a protection mechanism used to elevate a particular process to high to become privileged.
So you need to verify you below to a group applied to the external drive that has write permission to the path you are writing to as well as permission to write files and you also want to check the the integrity level a.k.a. (the mandatory labels). If it is set to high then that is why you keep getting prompted
Labels have to do with your current rights elevation while permissions are what you are allowed to do with directories and files.
Labels are low, medium and high. Most everything runs at a medium privilege label except for some browser processes run in low and the built-in administrator account runs in high.
So you need the current permissions as well as to be running in the correct label. Even as an user that belongs to the administrators group your user account still runs in medium for almost everything. The UAC prompt is a protection mechanism used to elevate a particular process to high to become privileged.
So you need to verify you below to a group applied to the external drive that has write permission to the path you are writing to as well as permission to write files and you also want to check the the integrity level a.k.a. (the mandatory labels). If it is set to high then that is why you keep getting prompted
