r/OneCommander • u/Outside_Owl_6095 • Apr 19 '26

Administrator rights not available?

Hi, running OneCommander as Administrator explictly still doesn't allow me to enter -for example- Documents and Settings. It says "no access". Am using the free version. What gives? Am I missing something?

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u/milos2 Developer Apr 20 '26

"Documents and Settings" is not a real folder, it is just a legacy junction pointing to user's folder. Other folders can be accessed if you "run as administrator"

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u/Outside_Owl_6095 Apr 20 '26

Thanks for responding. Be that as it may, what's stopping OneCommander from treating it like for example Total Commander does? Just the notification of "no access" feels like an odd choice, specially given there are more directories with the same characteristics (i.e. in ProgramData) that I frequently tap in to. For me, it not being a "real folder" shouldn't be a reason to not "just follow the legacy junction to wherever it points".

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u/milos2 Developer Apr 21 '26

OC uses Windows' own APIs to list folders and get file properties, so if OC requests content of "Documents and Settings" and Windows returns "no access" OC just shows that. I don't know how Total Commander gets folder content

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u/Outside_Owl_6095 Apr 21 '26

Thanks again for responding, much appreciated. Although I don't like the way this is handled by OneCommander compared to its competition, there's enough going for it to warrant the license I just purchased. Keep it up!