File Not Found?

[rozmere]

I am simply trying to save a picture from the internet to my desktop (also happens when saving a file from Photoshop to desktop, have not tried other programs yet). I've tried this in both Microsoft Edge and Opera (my preferred browser). I keep getting the error message "File Not Found - Check the file name and try again" which obviously makes no sense because this is a new file that I'm trying to save, I'm not trying to access an already present file. I can choose and save to my downloads folder fine. I did a disk check on C: and it had 0 bad sectors and I can't think of any recent changes I did directly to this computer other than turning on my anti-ransomware in Windows and adding my external drives to it's protection. BTW I'm running Windows 10

 

[viveknayyar007]

Hello rozmere

When you enable Controlled folder access in Windows Defender to turn on protection again ransomware attack, the folders that may contain your data automatically get protected, and Windows doesn't allow you to save any new files to them.

You can try turning off Controlled folder access by typing Controlled folder access in the Cortana search box, clicking Controlled folder access from the suggestion list, turning the Controlled folder access switch off, and clicking Yes in the UAC box (or entering your password if prompted).

Hope this helps.

Cheers!!