Question

I’m doing a simple image resize and on the final I want to save it like:

path = "C:\\new_image.jpg";
img.Save(path, jpegCodec, encoderParams);

The problem is it saves to “……. \Users\Ervin\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\” .
What did I do wrong or what did I miss out?

UPDATE: I changed the path to an other folder, and it works. it seems I can’t save to C:\ only.

Answer 1

The resion for this is the user you are running as does not have write permissions to write directly to the C: drive this was new to either Win7 or Vista I am not shure which.

You can solve this by:

1. Saving in a directory other than the root of C:
2. Changing the permissions on the C: drive so people other than the administrators group have write access.
3. Run your program with elevated privileges.

……. \Users\Ervin\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\ was added to help fix legacy applications when you updated. You may also notice a lot of entries in the “Program Files” in the virtual store. these are programs trying to write to their own directory in program files instead of %LOCALAPPDATA% like they should.