Re: Ea Launcher downloading permissions error

Hello, I try to uninstall and clean install EA app. not working. did it again with UAC set to low setting and antivirus paused. Still no luck.

Game is not downloading, It is setup to download to E:\games\ea games\. It always gives security error. Image ea app2

When i change it to C: drive it starts to download but it have error too. Image ea app3

something is wrong with app. Steam works fine. And it stores downloads on E disk. As C drive is windows only, and small apps.

@Vulkan989 Thank you for the screenshots. Can you reset the password to your EA account for me, and then when you log into the app, pause the download and change the download speed in the EA App settings? 

With that error, since it is so generic, there won't always be a one-step process that just fixes it. I've seen players say their ISP blocked it and a VPN worked.

Hello, I reset password, log in and still got error but different kind. image ea app4. then i restart app, run it as admin still error, image ea app5.

Restart app, run it as admin and limit download speed to 1MB/s and error again. image ea app6. 

It shows 49%, but now way it downloaded this much in 1 sec. i think it is still calculating something.

Cant download any game from my library. I always get error.

Should i try to install ea app to E: drive?

@Vulkan989 If it lets you you can. It could be a permissions issue with the actual drive. That has happened before.

@Vulkan989 Right on! I am happy to hear that it is now working for you. I appreciate the information though. I will pas that along so that the right folks can take a look and see why creating a new folder worked out like that.

Where do you go to make a new folder? 

How do you access an ‘E Drive’?

I cannot find anything in my files.

@abc1603430712 The Drive letter is set by the Windows user. The E: drive could be anything from Google Drive, a USB or a secondary HDD within the PC.

You can just make a folder on the desktop or any other location on your PC. That is entirely up to you where you want it.

my sims game wont repair and it says permissions error how do i fix that??

How do you access E drive? I am not understanding how to create a new drive. 

How do I make it download to the new folder?

Hi. I too was getting this error.  I removed Sims 4 from c: to e: and it worked fine yesterday. Today I am right back to it needs repaired and ea permission error. I am going to go into e: and remove everything in that folder and see if I can play it today. Will there be a permanent fix for the Games App. I never had to do this before buying more expansion packs this week.

Well I have AVG. I will try that but I still hope they fix it. Downloading 21 GB every time I want to play it is unreasonable. 

I have the same problem. Yesterday I played the game without issues. Today when I tried to start the game, I got a message saying I needed to repair the game. I clicked the "repair" option, but when the repairing process was at the wrapping up stage, an error message appeared: "Permission error: Failed to create folder - The EA app requires full control permissions to create this folder. Reach out to EA Help for more information. Folder path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\The Sims 4\"

I ran EA app as administrator, and I turned off my antivirus software.

@DolphinSSA Happy to hear you were able to get that resolved!

Yo logré resolver el problema, pero tuve que desinstalar y reinstalar todo el juego.