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Recently I got a "Error Connecting to ZWO Focuser" The details of the error are : Access to the path 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\ASCOM\SystemLogs\ASIEAF\Logs 2025-02-05' is denied. (Error Code: 0x80070005)

The solution:

1) Create SystemLogs and under it ASIEAF folder as they did not exist
2) Try again still failure so under folder properties give these two files full permissions to all users listed.
3) Success

YMMV

Thanks for sharing - helpful to have this sort of thing documented in case someone else runs into it.

cheers,

Robin

That’s Windoze “being helpful”, and blocking access to the logs directory - check the security center logs…
I find it easiest to set up exemptions for all of the Astro related apps in Security Center.

Cheers,
Carl

Hi,

actually, now I read the error above again, Windows is probably doing the right thing here... By design the 'Program Files' directiory (and the x86 one, and everything inside both) is supposed to be only writable by admin users - this is a security boundary to try to keep people from planting things in there that could possibly contain malicious code. The ASCOM driver should be putting its logs somewhere else - %LOCALAPPDATA%, %PROGRAMDATA%, etc.

cheers,

Robin