Steam Missing File Privileges

[PhilGoodInc]

I was having issues with my RGB because every RGB software wanted to control my GSkill Trident RGB, uninstalling the programs didn't fix the issues so I re-installed windows.

 

I seemed to have issues with writing and accessing my 1tb Games SSD in both steam ("missing file privileges" ) and in windows 10 Pro. So I backed it up, reformatted it. Seems to be doing good in windows, however, when I try to install or update a game I still get that "missing file privileges" error. I know i can run it as admin (doing it every time is annoying, and selecting the "Run as administrator" option in compatibility makes that even more annoying windows security check popup happen, as well as steam telling me to stop compatibility mode.

 

This issue has me stumped as I didn't have any issues with the previous install which was over 2 years, and I didn't do anything differently this time round.

 

Anybody know how I can fix this issue?

 

 

[PhilGoodInc]

I thought i would try re-installing steam, when trying to add the drive to my library, I get "Drive must be writeable" which also happened when I installed it.

 

Ive checked my permissions on the drive and it every admin and user has full control and everything else ticked.

[Avocado Diaboli]

A quick search brought me to this article outlining a number of possible fixes. Try going through them.

[PhilGoodInc]

Unfortunately only the "run as administrator" "fix" works. (not really a permanent fix imo).

 

It seems I am having issues with ALL my non OS drives reverting to read only despite me changing the settings. This issue has many more fixes i will need to try.

[PhilGoodInc]

Thought I would share my solution with everyone

 

The issue I was having was with the ownership of the drives. For some reason after the latest windows install, I did not have ownership of any other drives other than the C: Drive. Changing this in the properties of the drive in windows explorer does not actually solve the issue. I used PowerShell (in Admin mode) to do it.

 

The command I used was 

takeown /F "full path of folder or drive" /A /R /D Y

Entire D: drive would be like this 

takeown /F d:\ /A /R /D Y

Unfortunately this takes a while. My 1TB SSD was freshly formatted so that took a second. I have to do this to all of my other drives (4 to go)