Need "administrative permission to delete file"?

[musicmafia]

if you use the Internal MusicBee web browser, then i strongly recommend you dont run MusicBee as an administrator when using it

thanx steven...having fun with MB so far...a little learning curve for me but seems to be a lot of great customizable settings very well thought out, I just have to figure out how to use them haha....I haven't used the internal browser and I guess I wont at this point....

[redwing]

If you have weird issues with Windows such as administrative permission or access denied issues, I'd strongly recommend to use a portable installation of MB. Download a portable version from the official page, install it in any non-special folder and overwrite it with the latest patch.

[musicmafia]

If you have weird issues with Windows such as administrative permission or access denied issues, I'd strongly recommend to use a portable installation of MB. Download a portable version from the official page, install it in any non-special folder and overwrite it with the latest patch.

im not as tech savvy as you redwing so i just want to be sure i got this right before screwing it up LOL.... i should replace my current version with the portable version? download and install on my C drive or on external drive? what do you mean overwirite with latest patch? thanks!! M

[redwing]

for some reason i have to run musicbee as admin to do many functions such as editing tags...the tags appear edited in MB but when i go to source folder on external M drive the tags are not changed....in fact when i try using windows to manually edit FLAC file tags on my M drive i get an error message saying "unable to write id tags for...". as part of my troubleshoot i have disabled all security software for the M drive and made sure they were not locked or set to read only. anyone else have issues editing flac files? i'm stumped.

I doubt installing a portable version could resolve this if even Windows Explorer cannot edit those files.

[Steven]

This sounds to me very much like your user id does not have permissions for the files. I seen it mentioned before that there can be some unexpected behavior by windows with file permissions eg. when restoring the system to a prior state. You might try googling techsupportalert.com or windows specialist forums