Unable to run project. Error: Access to project.json file is denied

[Prasoon.Goswami (Prasoon)]

Error Message: Acces to the path’\My Documents\UiPath\UipathPOC\project.json is denied.

[HareeshMR (Hareesh Madasi)]

Hi @Prasoon.Goswami,

Welcome to forum …

I hope you are running the file from your documents with other user. Try moving the project.json and related files to the common drive (D:) and run the project.

[loginerror (Maciej Kuźmicz)]

Hi @Prasoon.Goswami

Welcome to our UiPath Forum!

It might not be the solution, but could you give this idea a try?

Updated UiPath and now get error "Could not find a part of the path"

Hi all, This is indeed a new issue that came from some changes we made on how the robot (service) is handling files that are needed when Studio or UiRobot.exe -f cmd runs a flow. Until now, the files were accessed by Studio (the user), but now they are accessed directly by the service (Local System). Since only the user has share drive access, opening the project in Studio will work (as is done by the user) but the running part that is done through the robot (local system) won’t. We have log…

[Djh (Dillan Hackett)]

Can you manually get into the .json file? It will be located in the same folder as the Main.xaml file for the automation, and you can open it with notepad - provided you have permissions, if it says you do not, then you will need to get the permissions updated so you can access.