Vista seems to prevent .net from reading/updating file attributes.

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Published on 2010-06-03T16:57:15Z Indexed on 2010/06/03 20:24 UTC
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Hello everyone!

The following function copies a file from Source & Path to Dest & Path, normally setting file attributes to normal before copying.

Yet, a user of my app has reported it to fail when copying readonly files, returning a permissions-related error. The user is however running the code as administrator, and the error happens - quite strangely - on the SetLastWriteTimeUtc line.
Although the code reports that the file attributes are set to normal, windows explorer shows that they are set to read only.

Sub CopyFile(ByVal Path As String, ByVal Source As String, ByVal Dest As String)
    If IO.File.Exists(Dest & Path) Then IO.File.SetAttributes(Dest & Path, IO.FileAttributes.Normal)
    IO.File.Copy(Source & Path, Dest & Path, True)

    If Handler.GetSetting(ConfigOptions.TimeOffset, "0") <> "0" Then
        IO.File.SetAttributes(Dest & Path, IO.FileAttributes.Normal)
        IO.File.SetLastWriteTimeUtc(Dest & Path, IO.File.GetLastWriteTimeUtc(Dest & Path).AddHours(Handler.GetSetting(ConfigOptions.TimeOffset, "0")))
    End If
    IO.File.SetAttributes(Dest & Path, IO.File.GetAttributes(Source & Path))
End Sub

I just fail to see the problem in this code, so after long hours of searching for the solution, I thought one of SO VB.Net Gurus might help :)

Thanks a lot.

Edit:
The actual error is

Access to the path '(..)' is denied.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize)
at System.IO.File.OpenFile(String path, FileAccess access, SafeFileHandle& handle)
at System.IO.File.SetLastWriteTimeUtc(String path, DateTime lastWriteTimeUtc)

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