Destination Folder Access Denied - You need permission to perform this action

Answer 1

Take ownership of the folders and files...

1. Right-click the folder that you want to take ownership of, and then click Properties.

2. Click the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the Owner tab.

3. Click Edit. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

4. Click the name of the person you want to give ownership to.

5. If you want that person to be the owner of files and subfolders in this folder, select the Replace owner on subcontainers and objects check box.

6. Click OK.

Answer 2

You may get this error when one of the files contained within the folder may in in use by a running program.

Answer 3

don't listen to vista, it tells lies!!!

I had this problem, and could not resolve it by running as admin, taking ownership (I was already owner) etc. turned out the problem was that another process (textpad) had a file open deep underneath the directory I was trying to rename. the error message was completely misleading, the problem was a file open for write, nothing to do with security permissions.

AAaaarghhhh!!!!