Background: I’m on Windows 10. I tried embedding an image in one of my posts. It went well in hugo server mode. When I compiled the site with the hugo command: Start building sites … Total in 3287 ms Error: Error copying static files: open C:\path\to\myblog\public\static\the_image.png: Access is …

[image] nicholaskross: v0.79.0 is unsafe How so? Please do elaborate. EDIT I just remembered you are referring to the 0.79.1 Release Notes . Windows users who ran hugo inside untrusted Hugo sites were affected. Normally, you shouldn’t really be affected by the above. [image] nicholas…

v0.79.0 (and lower(?)) had some kind of security vulnerability . I’m not sure if I’d be affected, since I don’t run untrusted Hugo sites. Good idea on the repository! Here is a dummy version of my code . It reproduces the error on my system. I believe the problem has to do with Windows’ permissions/…

The access to create or write in the folder public is denied, NOT to the image. That means, that you have no folder public created AND Hugo is missing rights to create files in your directory. The quickest way is probably to create a folder named public and add a file .gitignore inside of that folde…

I don’t think the gitignore is the problem, since my actual code is not a real repo. Thank you for the tip though! And I will ask on a windows forum and report back if something there works.

(For the record, I tried my old version-downgrading trick down to v0.78.1, no success.)

Does your project reside under the Onedrive or Dropbox folder?

Nope, It’s in a normal file directory on Win10.

[image] nicholaskross: I don’t think the gitignore is the problem It’s not, but it would have kept the public folder existing on a repository-based site. You need to get the file rights working on your station. Sometimes if you copy from one Windows computer to another the ownership on the ne…

All users (including SYSTEM) that can be selected, already have all permissions on my site’s folder (the top-level one containing archetypes, content, data, layouts…). Except “special permissions”, which seems to just be more specific permission definitions anyway (so it wouldn’t need to be checked …

Windows Permissions Error copying static files

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