Saving to root directory of windows 7
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Hi there.
I have a matlab function that saves using fprintf...and it works just fine saving anywere, exept I can't save in the root, that is 'c:\' which is exactly where it needs to be saved. I can ofcourse save it somewhere else and then copy it to the root and say 'yes' or whatever when windows as me for persmission and admin rights and so on...
but I NEED to code it so that matlab saves it to "c:\filename".
which brings me to my question, is there anyway to get matlab to tell windows to ask for the admin rights when trying to save the file? that is via coding...
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Daniel Shub
on 21 May 2011
As a Linux user, I am not sure I can be much help. First, are you sure you need to save it to the root directory? Second, can you run MATLAB as root for this case?
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Johan
on 26 May 2011
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Jason Ross
on 26 May 2011
Yes, I have traveled the same road ... on some level you might consider it "job security" since you know they'll be back in the future :)
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Walter Roberson
on 21 May 2011
Perhaps you could system() a runas command that copies the file to where it needs to go. I seem to recall that runas prompts for the password.
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Walter Roberson
on 22 May 2011
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/runas.mspx?mfr=true
It would simply be a Windows command-line that you submitted via system()
system(sprintf('runas /user:Administrator@YourComputerName move %s %s', oldfilename, newfilename))
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