I'm IT Technician at a Secondary School and our Network Manager is away on long term leave. Currently our student's aren't able to send to - compressed folder. When trying the error 'File not found or no read permission' appears. It works for staff so I can only imagine it's a group policy setting. I have minimal knowledge on GPOs. My understanding is temp files are used on the C: drive when creating zip folders, and I've tried giving a test student full access to these but this didn't work. Third party (7-zip) also doesn't work.

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Windows 7 with mix of 64/32 used. Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.

Windows 10 comes with native support for zip files. In File Explorer, select and right-click on the folders or files you want to zip, select “Send To” - “Compressed (zipped) folder” from the context menu.This will compress your selected folders/files into a single.zip file.

Any help massively appreciated!

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I had files locked in the folder.

Once I closed the programs that had the file locked, I could create a zip file successfully.

Make sure that they have access to the temp folder (I know, you said you tried the C drive, but please double check); this error message usually means that zip fails because they don't. Also, the temp folder in question might not be c:temp. Check in Computer Properties/System Information -> Advanced System Settings -> Advanced -> Environment variables. (Mine is %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalTemp.) The students need access to that temp folder.

Good luck!

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Katherine VillyardKatherine Villyard

I came across a very similar issue in Windows 10 regarding being able to zip a .sql file. The message I received was 'file not found or no read permissions'. I tried adjusting the security and permissions on the file and moving it to a different drive/folder but nothing changed. What I did notice, however, is that this particular file did not have a 'date modified' value. So, I opened the file in Code Writer, added a space to the end of the file, and then saved it. This created a 'date modified' value and thus I was able to zip the file. I suspect that some other application had a lock of some kind on the file.

Are your students able to send other kind of files?Are the zip files closed before sending ?Have you tried moving the zip file somewhere else before sending ? ex: on the Desktop where they should have enough rights by default.

We have a policy that prevents from sending .exe or .bat files and to overcome it we rename them .gfe (like Good For Email) before sending them.

Can you try this and tell me ?

Hope it helps.

You should use process monitor to see what happens exactly when the problem occurs: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor.aspx

SwisstoneSwisstone

If a locked down temp folder is the issue you can tell 7-zip to use a different temp folder. The temp folder can also be changed in the Environmental Variable settings to a location where you have more permissions.

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When right-clicking a file and clicking the Send To menu in Windows 10, only the Bluetooth Device shortcut may be displayed, although the other shortcuts including the default ones, such as Compressed (zipped) folder, Desktop (create shortcut), Mail Recipient, are intact in the user’s Send To folder.

The problem is caused by a file named Bluetooth, a 0-byte file of type 'Send To Bluetooth' which stalls the rendering of Send To menu correctly. Deleting the file fixes the problem. To do so, open your user profile’s Send To folder, which is located at %APPDATA%MicrosoftWindowsSendTo. Simply type the path in the address bar in File Explorer, or run the command shell:sendto from the Run (WinKey + R) dialog to open the Send To folder.

Many users face this issue after upgrading to Windows 10. Perhaps the old Bluetooth software they installed or that came preinstalled with the computer doesn’t play well with Windows 10. Thanks to Keith Miller for the fix.

Delete the file named Bluetooth. (Don’t delete the shortcut Bluetooth device.)

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The Send To menu should render correctly.

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