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Why does a directory and pathname reader throw a write permission error?

  • August 17, 2026
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gisbradokla
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FME Flow using a directory and pathname reader transformer. it has run in this folder before (different fme version) and not had this error.

PATH Reader: Error reading path '\\Tx-mio-miso1\mi-shared2\SUR\MoDC_TXAS_NRGY\COUNT_FLEET_\ASBUILT\WORKING' with error message: 'The media is write protected.'

Why does a reader transformer need write access?

It doesn’t even get to the writer and fails

 

 

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hkingsbury
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  • August 23, 2026

I’d be interested to understand this too. I’ve noticed some other formats (SQLite being on of them) will often lock the entire database for just a read