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Error: Attempted to Perform an Unauthorized Operation

Will Strohl edited this page Mar 11, 2016 · 1 revision

When this error occurs, it's most likely that you were attempting to install your site in a location that already has files and a database. The most common example of this is installing in a location where you've previously installed a site using MakeDNNSite. There's both web and database files in the directory, and they're currently locked and/or in use.

Error: Attempted to Perform an Unauthorized Operation

When you click OK, you'll also get the standard files message.

Error: The directory is not empty!

In order to fix this, you'll need to close nvQuickSite, and then manually delete/uninstall the previous website database and files. There's no need to do anything in IIS.

On rare occasions, a reboot may be necessary to remove the file/folder lock as well.