I am using the free version of Unity on windows 8 and I am trying to learn how to use Unity. Whenever I try to import any of the Unity tutorial projects I keep getting errors saying that Unity cannot move file from temp to the assets folder and that access is denied. (I apologise for the lack of clarity) Also, I have seen in after a un-install and reinstall Unity that there was a compiler error which wouldn’t let me run any of the tutorials in the game screen to test them. I have tried reinstalling Unity several times but that doesn’t seem to do trick. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi, I have had similar issues on dev machines running a variety of anti-virus software. Be careful, but perhaps try temporarily disabling your anti-virus and see if that helps. Also, is the project in a location such as My Documents? Sometimes you may get denied access there if you’re not an administrator. As @Landern suggested you can also try running the application as an administrator. Though in my experience it has always been anti-virus / anti-malware software. I hope that helps =)
Was this ever resolved?
Make sure you have enough hard drive space.
Also, you can check and see what the permissions are like on the folder by right clicking the folder, clicking properties and then going to security. The user you are logged in under should have checks under “allow” for everything except “special permissions”.
Also…after looking at your image, it looks like it might be trying to move your asset to a strange folder with lots of zeros in it. To test and see if it’s an issue with the project itself, you can create a new project and then try to import the package into that project.
That may not solve your problem but it might give you a direction to move forward.
I did eventually get Unity running smoothly in the end.
I had to uninstall Unity and delete all files/folders associated with it, then I reinstalled it with the default project/folder paths (This is where I think my errors came from, as I had previously installed Unity in a different folder than the default one), I then ran Unity as an admin along with no anti virus running. Unity worked perfectly from then on.