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annakarinstenman
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4 months ago
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Compilation Error (138001) Write permission

Hi, I'm taking a course in FPGA design and is using Quartus Prime Lite 16.1 (Free) and constantly run into permission errors. The latest one is during compilation. Error (138001): Cannot write to ...
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    annakarinstenman
    4 months ago

    So (one solution anyway):

    I updated to 25.1 (might not have been necessary)
    I started Quartus as administrator (but this was not enough)
    Finally I moved the project folder outside my OneDrive/System managed folders

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RichardT_altera
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4 months ago

Please try running Quartus in Administrator mode, or consider changing the project directory to a different location (for example, outside protected or system‑managed folders).
As sstrell mentioned, Quartus Prime 16.1 is a legacy version and is now quite old. No further technical support is provided for this version.
I would strongly recommend installing and using the latest supported Quartus version

Linux: https://www.altera.com/downloads/fpga-development-tools/quartus-prime-lite-edition-design-software-version-25-1-linux
Windows: https://www.altera.com/downloads/fpga-development-tools/quartus-prime-lite-edition-design-software-version-25-1-windows

Regards,
Richard Tan