On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Ben Fritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, September 18, 2017 at 7:51:44 AM UTC-5, Karthick wrote: >> Hello folks, >> >> I have Gvim 8.0 installed on a Windows 10 machine. Sometime in the >> last few days, looks like there was an OS update that changed how >> files in the 'Documents' folder are handled. >> >> This is what I see now: >> a. Editing files in, say C:\Windows\Temp\temp.txt works fine. >> Similarly many other folders in C:\ work perfectly fine as well. >> b. However, as far as I can see, ALL files in my 'Documents' are not >> editable by gvim. The files open in readonly mode and trying to :w! >> reports E212: Can't open file for writing. > > Perhaps it's because of the new-ish Windows 10 feature called "Controlled > Folders", which prevents apps not on a whitelist from accessing your > documents folder. This is intended as a ransomware protection feature. > There's supposed to be a way to add apps to the whitelist, but Microsoft apps > (and probably a few other common apps) are included by default.
Thanks - that was the google keyword that I needed! In my case, it was the antivirus Bitdefender that was blocking access to the files. Once I add gvim to the white-list, the original issue gets resolved. -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
