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Re: Operation Requires Elevation

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:42:05 +0100, R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> wrote:

>I have a VB6 app which is running quite happily in a number 
>of mixed (XP/Vista?W7/2008) environments in a number of 
>sites.
>
>One W7 machine recently fried it's HDD and had to be 
>completely re-installed from scratch.
>
>It is running my app. from a share on a Vista machine.  
>After a few stumbles we finally persuaded it to run Fine, 
>except when it wants to generate an output via an excel 
>template.
>
>Code snipet:
>
>Set oExcel = New Excel.Application
>Set oWB = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(sFile)
>Set oWS = oWB.ActiveSheet
>
>'sFile' is a .xlt file in app.path\Templates on the server.
>
>This machine fails every time, and my error log reports:
>"the requested operation requires elevation"

Most likely a confusion over "ownership" of the file. 

My guess is that these files were restored by harvesting from other
PCs and not from a backup. This is a common problem when restructuring
or otherwise performing a mass shuffling of files from one PC to
another. Plenty of examples online. Here is one.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-files/the-requested-operation-requires-elevation/4d45a50e-2e5d-49f7-950c-e6281057491f

-ralph

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Operation Requires Elevation R C Nesbit <spam@ukrm.net> - 2012-03-29 13:42 +0100
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  Re: Operation Requires Elevation ralph <nt_consulting64@yahoo.net> - 2012-03-29 08:33 -0500

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