One of my installation (itunes) is failing because of a path not found.
The question:
I need to create a folder in C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\
and copy to that new folder some files. I get access denied, I'm admin.. When I saw the privileges – only user System
can write there but I've no idea how to acquire this user(I never created it).
Long story:
Itunes fails because it doesnt find the location of usbaapl64.inf
. It looks for that file in C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\usbaapl64.inf_amd64_neutral_ca639d07023cb608
which indeed doesnt exists, but I search where the installation get this path from (stored in some files/registry/device manager) and I didnt find where this path is store. I do have the location C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\usbaapl64.inf_amd64_neutral_c111aaecb61e9a2b
so what I though was to create that location and copy the files to there. I really tried everything in order to fix that failed installation, this is the last resort.
Among things I tried (I scanned google and apple support, so I dont really remember the most) to install previous release, update apple usb drivers from the driver manager, split the apple installation to 3 (application support, mobile device and itunes), restart win between uninstall & install, clean the computer from left overs with verities of programs, clean the registry(plus clean it from anything that contain ca639d07023cb608
), and I guess more things that I probably forgot…
Best Answer
Normal NTFS Permisions on folder
C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\
are System - Full Control, and Everyone - Read & Execute.I you really want to copy into this directory you can do the following:
You can now copy files/folder into this directory.
To get control over all the other directories you could "Get Ownership" of this folder but that's not recommended. (you already have read access of those)