BleepingComputer.com: New and confused,write permissions to directory

Hi everyone ,

ok so I apologize if this has been posted before , I did a search and I did not see anything , but then I may have over looked it.

I am trying to open my H& R Block 2010 to print some forms off for my daughter that she needs for Fasfa ..I had previously printed them had them in a file , went through one heck of a divorce and the file "magically" disappeared..which now brought me to tonight to print them ..and I get the error message...

No write permissions to directory .
(see WinFileWriterImpl::open())


I am lost , and now at my wits ends...I was able to open and print them two months ago .ugh

any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks once again , I apologize if this subject has been covered before.

This post has been edited by boopme: 21 June 2011 - 08:48 PM

Hello and welcome, This is probably not malware and I do not know your operating system.
See if the 2 posts by Almost Jake on April 3 help ...go here L@@K

I am running Xp professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3

I will move this to the XP forum in case you need more help.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-security/no-write-permissions-to-directory-see/01c1482f-5a5b-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5

If the designated program is installed, I would try taking ownership of the file.

How to take ownership of a file or folder in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421

Of course, it's possible that the file is damaged and unreadable but that should have produced a different error message, IMO.

Louis

Thanks and none of this helped at all..

hamluis, on 22 June 2011 - 06:44 AM, said:

I tried this and can not even locate the file .

I can't provide any more info than I've already Googled. If those links don't apply to your situation...I don't know what to tell you.

Louis

How about contacting Customer Support.

You're obviously not the only one to run into problems with that program.

http://www.hrblock.com/tax-software/index.html

Thanks all....contacted customer support and they were no help. I will get it figured out.

As none of the solutions referred to in the links supplied have helped you, you might consider uninstalling the program, using Revo Uninstaller, rather than through add / remove.

See Post #3 by boopme at this link for instructions:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/topic403338.html

Then reinstall the program and see if you can print the forms. (I assume they were only blanks to begin with).

Thanks it is all fixed now .
No they weren't blank , but I got the information I needed .

This site was a great help.