An Access Violation error is the abbreviated term for what’s known as a segmentation fault. It is a problem that occurs when a program, or a piece of software, tries to access memory that it doesn’t have permission to use.

It’s the computer equivalent of walking in to a locked door, you could say. The files that you want are protected by a security layer, or are simply locked and inaccessible from your current environment.

Access Violation errors are also a very common trait of software that is configured incorrectly. While UNIX machines will receive a SIGSEGV signal about the invalid memory, users on Microsoft Windows operating systems will be presented with the STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION exception, better known as an Access Violation.

If, for example, you have a hardware device which is recently installed, and software which is used by other programs, it’s possible that you’ll receive an Access Violation when trying to use the new hardware device, if its drivers are being used by another source. These sort of collisions will often result in Access Violations where a piece of software is in demand from two or more pieces of hardware, and it can only feed one at a time.

The memory is thus locked, and any attempt to access the important source files will be blocked out. The Access Violation error is returned, and you, the end user- will be left to scratch your head.

You may have also received an Access Violation exception when attempting to access a typical file or folder that you wouldn’t expect to be involved with any system processes or crucial drivers. In most cases, this is down to the attribute of the file.

If you try to write to a file which is designated as Read-Only, you will be attempting to breach the security permissions of that particular file. This is blocked out by the Access Violation exception. But the good news is, such errors are easy to fix.

To resolve a permission error, we need to enter the Command Prompt and make a change to the attributes of the file. If you can’t open it, we need to make it readable. If you can’t write to it, we need to make it writeable. And so forth.

The Dos command for making changes to the attribute of a file is shown below:

ATTRIB [+R | -R] [+A | -A] [+S | -S] [+H | -H] [[drive:][path]file] [/S]

If this is no more than random gibberish to you, don’t worry. It’s quite simple when broken down.

The plus sign is used to add attributes, and the minus sign takes them away.

R is the READ-ONLY attribute.
A is the ARCHIVE attribute.
S is the SYSTEM FILE attribute.
H is the HIDDEN FILE attribute.

Obviously, if you have a file which is Read-Only, you are not going to be able to make changes or edit the contents. This is probably the number one cause of Access Violation errors.

To get rid of them, you simply need to apply the correct attribute formation so that the file is accessible to your needs.

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