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Win32 access denied errors while installing Planning Analytics for Excel on non-system drive

Troubleshooting


Problem

Win32 Access Denied errors when Planning Analytics Workspace is installed on non-system drive or when attempting to start one of the containers.

Symptom

Here are some examples of the errors:
1-Something went wrong at step 'Installing/Updating IBM Planning Analytics Docker images' re-exec error: exit status 1: output: hcsshim::ImportLayer - failed failed in Win32: Access is denied. (0x5).
2-failed failed in win32. The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (0x20).
3-Something went wrong at step 'Installing/Updating IBM Planning Analytics Docker images' re-exec error: exit status 1: output: Failed to safefile.OpenRelative failed in Win32: open \\?E:\dockerdata\xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\Files: Access Denied. (0x1f).

Document Location

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Document Information

Modified date:
26 May 2022

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ibm16587991