Protected folders is ultimately a security feature.ĭo not just delete a protected folder before you are sure that this folder does not need the extra security. Add the unauthorized application to Controlled folder accessĬheck which is best for you.

It really depends on what you prefer, or need. Let’s fix ‘ Unauthorized changes blocked‘ or ‘ File not found check the file name and try again‘. This is probably a setting within Windows Defender that is enabled at Company level. You’d expect a permission error than though. Blocked by: Controlled folder access.Īpparently Protected folders was blocking the action to save a file, thus Notepad-Plus-Plus got a file not found error message because it wasn’t able to save to this location. ADFS (3) Android (12) Android Studio (3) Answers (28) Automation (16) Azure (14) AzureAD (9) Azure DevOps (2) Azure Storage (6) Certificates (5) Chrome (6) CMD (7) Exchange (15) Git (2) Github (2) Hyper-V (3) IIS (2) Intel (3) Microsoft Office (4) My Way (13) NPS (3) O365 (6) OAI (2) OMS (4) OneDrive (4) OnePlus (3) Outlook (10) PowerBI (3) PowerShell (60) PowerShell Gallery (2) Printer (3) PSScript (13) RDS (3) S4B (3) Samsung (4) Settings (29) Teams (4) VirtualBox (4) Visual Studio (2) VSC (5) WAP (3) Windows Defender (4) Windows Store (4) WP Plugins (3) WP Settings (9)įIX: Your administrator has blocked this action.

Controlled folder access blocked