topic User Access Control problem with background thread process in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/user-access-control-problem-with-background-thread/m-p/547378#M14802 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a custom toolbar written in C# that was migrated to ArcGIS Desktop 10x using VS 2010. The tool will only run when ArcMap is run as an Administrator. The tool does some validation checks on a file geodatabase then asks the user to save a zip file to a folder location using the Save As Dialog. If that is successful a background process is started on another thread that opens the zip and writes an xml file to the zip file. On a Win7 and UAC not disabled, somewhere after the save file dialog ArcMap crashes with the Dialog asking the user if they want to send the problem to ESRI. I can't catch the error but I believe it might either be the act of starting a background process or trying to write to the zip file in the background process. An empty zip does get saved.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If the user can use standard privileges to write the zip file (no admin writes needed) why would there be a security problem with writing to the zip from another thread. Is that thread being run as another user? system? How can I prevent ArcMap from having to be run as admin? Should I try to assign r/w for all users on the zip? Should I specifically try to set in the code to run the background process as the standard user. I saw documentation where I can set a process to run as admin but I would rather not do that because I feel it is unnecessary to be an admin to write to a zip.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This zip file is not being written to the sacred directories - ex Program Files or C: root.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Amy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:57:02 GMT AmyRamsdell 2013-04-12T10:57:02Z User Access Control problem with background thread process https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/user-access-control-problem-with-background-thread/m-p/547378#M14802 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a custom toolbar written in C# that was migrated to ArcGIS Desktop 10x using VS 2010. The tool will only run when ArcMap is run as an Administrator. The tool does some validation checks on a file geodatabase then asks the user to save a zip file to a folder location using the Save As Dialog. If that is successful a background process is started on another thread that opens the zip and writes an xml file to the zip file. On a Win7 and UAC not disabled, somewhere after the save file dialog ArcMap crashes with the Dialog asking the user if they want to send the problem to ESRI. I can't catch the error but I believe it might either be the act of starting a background process or trying to write to the zip file in the background process. An empty zip does get saved.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If the user can use standard privileges to write the zip file (no admin writes needed) why would there be a security problem with writing to the zip from another thread. Is that thread being run as another user? system? How can I prevent ArcMap from having to be run as admin? Should I try to assign r/w for all users on the zip? Should I specifically try to set in the code to run the background process as the standard user. I saw documentation where I can set a process to run as admin but I would rather not do that because I feel it is unnecessary to be an admin to write to a zip.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This zip file is not being written to the sacred directories - ex Program Files or C: root.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help appreciated.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you!</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Amy</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:57:02 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/user-access-control-problem-with-background-thread/m-p/547378#M14802 AmyRamsdell 2013-04-12T10:57:02Z