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I have a MiKTeX installation running on Windows Vista, and whenever I try to run initexmf, I get the following error message

initexmf: Windows API error 5: Access is denied. initexmf: Data: C:\Users\Public\Documents\My Music

The strange thing is, I don't have any latex documents in the My Music folder. Does anyone know what the problem might be? I don't have this problem on Windows XP computers, and I have tried disabling UAC, but to no avail.

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I finally solved the problem by including the --admin flag.

initexmf --admin

works

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But with the --admin switch you are calling a different tool. E.g. initexmf --admin -u will (as far as I know) not update the FNDB of your local tree. At my opinion you should really try to find out, what's going on e.g. by setting a trace: miktex.org/diagnosing. Btw: I sometimes get API-errors when miktex options is open in the background. – Ulrike Fischer Nov 28 '10 at 15:11
@Ulrike: yeah, it sometimes mo.exe will lock the fndbs for some reason :-( – SamB Dec 19 '10 at 23:12

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