[tex-live] problems with spaces under windows

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Thu Jun 30 19:36:50 CEST 2011


schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> One more tiny problem (I don't know if it is related or not).
> 
> I'm unable to delete C:\Program Files\TeX Live\2011\texmf\web2c. I
> don't have enough permissions even if I run Total Commander or cmd as
> Administrator. (I'm not logged in as Administrator, I'm not even sure
> if I ever created a special account for that.)
> 
> I installed TL from CMD (in ... Run as Administrator mode), now I
> cannot find a way to get rid of it. This might be connected with my
> previous attempt for installation that failed, but I am not sure about
> that.

I've seen permission problem on Windows, too.  The solution was to
log-off the user account and log-on as administrator.

<URL:http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.live/29259>

Which could be difficult if you don't have an explicit administrator
account.

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig




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