PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access is denied when updating Metadata

[theducks]

Originally Posted by rb431

I'm at "D:\Calibre Library" already.

That is great.

How did it get there? Did you just copy from the old location? If so, the errors will not have been fixed.

[kovidgoyal]

There is no issue with ampersands. ampersands are perfectly fine in long paths. I tried the following steps in my windows 11 system

1) Change the title of "Pride and Prejudice" to "Pride & Prejudice"
2) No errors observed
3) Change the title back to "Pride and Prejudice"
4) No errors observed
5) All book files moved successfully as expected

I am guessing you likely have some security software that is inserting itself into this and choking on the ampersands. Try excluding your calibre library folder from such software.

[rb431]

I have attached the output of procmon in native and CSV formats.

I get 4 events like this one before Calibre shows me the error message:

2:22:39.3162815 PM calibre.exe 34900 SetDispositionInformationEx C:\Users\Richard\Calibre Library\Aaron Allston\Star Wars_ Fate of the Jedi_ Backla (2247) CANNOT DELETE Flags: FILE_DISPOSITION_DELETE, FILE_DISPOSITION_POSIX_SEMANTICS, FILE_DISPOSITION_FORCE_IMAGE_SECTION_CHECK


I am totally open to the idea that this is some weird interaction on my system. Unfortunately for me Calibre is the only application to exhibit symptoms.

[rb431]

I broadened the procmon to all processes touching the Calibre Library path and tried again. I noticed a bunch of SearchIndexer activity around the same time so I excluded the library from Windows indexing, but that had no effect.

[rb431]

I have attached those log files. Here I get events like this:

3:00:19.6959137 PM Explorer.EXE 1340 SetDispositionInformationFile C:\Users\Richard\Calibre Library\Aaron Allston\Betrayal_ Star Wars Legends (Legacy (2247) NOT EMPTY Delete: True


I'm using a non-Admin account that has rights to the directory structure.


And another note. I can use the library maintenance to delete extra folders just fine. I attached 3 screengrabs showing it.

[kovidgoyal]

I dont see anything useful in those logs. For somereason deleting the file is failing on your system, its something specific to your system. Unfortunately I am not enough of a windows guru to tell you how to figure out what that is.

[rb431]

And 6.20 has seemingly solved my problem. I can't recreate the issue anymore after updating.

"Windows: Make moving files in the calibre library folder more robust, locking folders in addition to files, before the start of the move"