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Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

When I try to open a map (imported from zMUD), I get an Error in cMUD.exe. It says the <map name>.ini. access is denied. I can continue with my session and the map status load bar goes to about 80% and hangs indefinitely. The map never comes up but if I close the app and reopen it (the whole app, not just the map) when I reopen it, the map comes up. How can I fix that?

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Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

What version of Windows are you using? Are you an administrator?
What is the path to the folder where you are keeping your map?

Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

I just bought a new computer so the latest version of Vista Home Professional. I am the administrator. I had the maps on a CD still, the one from the transfer of the old compter when I typed the original problem. I have since copied them into my cMUD directory that has my specific MUD. I have not rebooted the machine or cMUD since I moved them. The problem persists.
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SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Check for the read-only flag on the map files you copied from the CD. It is common for this flag to occur when copying from a read-only source.

Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

Okay, there are four files for the map I am trying to open, the ini, the db, the zfg and the bak.zfg. The map I am trying to access is called Sybarus. When I tried to open it, it says the map 'Bazaar.ini' has denied me access. So I unchecked read only on all those files as well but I still get the access denied.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:15 pm

Make sure you put it in Documents\My Games\CMUD\ and not Program Files\CMUD - CMUD needs to open it in read-write mode and can't do that on Vista even if you have an administrator account.

Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

I think that is my problem. I will move it there and see if that works. Thank you all.
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Beginner Joined: 23 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

That fixed it! Thanks!

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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:21 am

Yeah, Vista's really annoying like this. Admin accounts aren't really admin accounts, but then can be admin accounts when they need to be. One of the side-effects of that is that by default, programs can't write to the Program Files directory (but they can to any other directory, which is a bit retarded - all a malicious app has to do is install somewhere else). That's why CMUD stores things it's going to need to write as well as read in My Documents.