[Solved!] Read-only File Attribute Reverts Itself

[CoolZakCZ]

Backstory & Problem

I've had my PC for 3-4 months now, and it's worked perfectly. I've played all my favorite games on it, and I can't wait to upgrade it in the near future. Recently, I decided to play War Thunder. Upon completing the download, the game could not install correctly. It read "DISK WRITE ERROR." Upon further research, I found others had this error, and fixed it by unchecking the 'Read-only' box under the Steam(C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam) folder properties. Upon unchecking the 'Read-only' box, no error messages appeared, and it loaded all the files inside the folder perfectly normally. To my surprise, War Thunder still couldn't install and still said "DISK WRITE ERROR." I returned to the properties of the folder, only to find it had switched back to 'Read-only' on its own. Dafuq?! Upon many more attempts, I am still unable to fix the issue.

 

Things I've Tried

- attrib -r +s C:\Steam (Does nothing)

- Unchecking 'Read-only' box (Does nothing)

- Ran Malwarebytes & Avira scans, removed anything detected, and tried again. (Didn't fix my problem)

- Removed "CREATOR OWNER" user from the Steam folder permissions, and gave full access to every other user on the list. (Some check marks are grayed out and others are black, does that mean anything?)

- Moved the Steam folder directly to the C:\ drive (Didn't fix my problem)

 

System Specs

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[paprikman]

Did you apply 'read-only' attribute to steam subfolders also? Because games are written to steam\steamapps. It's obvious that it will auto-return main folder to read-only, it's all about steam's security policy.

Try to create another game directory via steam setting and install your game there.

Also, is there enough space on the drive for this game?  (just to make sure)

[CoolZakCZ]

13 minutes ago, paprikman said:

Did you apply 'read-only' attribute to steam subfolders also? Because games are written to steam\steamapps. It's obvious that it will auto-return main folder to read-only, it's all about steam's security policy.

Try to create another game directory via steam setting and install your game there.

Also, is there enough space on the drive for this game?  (just to make sure)

Just tried changing C:\Steam\steamapps to not be read-only. Produces the same result as trying to change the root folder.

I'll try creating another game directory, and I'll update you on how that works.

Yeah, there's more than enough space. Even though it's only a 500-ish GB SSD, I haven't need any expansions (yet). I still have 140GB free.

 

Interestingly enough, I installed ARK: Survival Evolved to test if the issue persisted... But ARK installed perfectly, with no issues. For whatever reason just War Thunder specifically is having issues for me.

[paprikman]

2 minutes ago, CoolZakCZ said:

Just tried changing C:\Steam\steamapps to not be read-only. Produces the same result as trying to change the root folder.

I'll try creating another game directory, and I'll update you on how that works.

Yeah, there's more than enough space. Even though it's only a 500-ish GB SSD, I haven't need any expansions (yet). I still have 140GB free.

 

Interestingly enough, I installed ARK: Survival Evolved to test if the issue persisted... But ARK installed perfectly, with no issues. For whatever reason just War Thunder specifically is having issues for me.

Hm, it happens just to this game? I've searched a little bit and figured out that there are several solutions that people report for this problem. Check this out, maybe you'll find some useful.

[CoolZakCZ]

2 hours ago, paprikman said:

Hm, it happens just to this game? I've searched a little bit and figured out that there are several solutions that people report for this problem. Check this out, maybe you'll find some useful.

Aha, thank you so much! People were complaining about issues with an antivirus- When I checked Avira, I found the issue. I'm going to disable Avira, and try once more. I'll let you know if it fixes the issue. Although I think it's safe to assume this will fix the issue.

 

Edit: Yup! Disabling the antivirus for the install completely fixed my issue, turns out it had nothing to do with folder permissions! Thanks so much for the help!