# WMA Access Denied

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-access-denied/16888>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [May 6, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-access-denied/16888 "2015-05-06T17:01:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Calindoo](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Calindoo](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Calindoo)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-access-denied/16888/1 "2015-05-06T17:01:43Z")

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I can tag MP3's without issue, however when attmepting to tag WMA I am presented with a error message box :

File "D:\_Update\David Bowie\Bowie David - Changes\04 Ziggy Stardust.wma" cannot be renamed to "D:\_Update\David Bowie\Bowie David - Changes\ 04 - Ziggy Stardust.wma".  
Access is denied.

I would appreciate any pointers that may help.

Many thanks

CD

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**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-access-denied/16888/2 "2015-05-06T17:09:32Z")

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If you have not access then this could have the following the causes:  
you generally have not the sufficient access rights for the file/folder/drive. Best would be that you are the owner.  
Or another program blocks the file.  
This could be a player (like WMP) or even the Windows Explorer. The latter is particularly likely if you have opened the file(s) via the Explorer context menu. Workaround: close the explorer loading the files into MP3tag or open the files from within MP3tag.

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**Author:** ![DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/detlevd/32/123_2.png) [@DetlevD](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/DetlevD)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-access-denied/16888/3 "2015-05-06T17:54:34Z")

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> [@Calindoo](#):
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> ... to "D:\_Update\David Bowie\Bowie David - Changes\ 04 - Ziggy Stardust.wma". ...

Show us the involved formatstring.  
Maybe ... try to remove the leading space character from the filename.

DD.20150506.2156.CEST

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wma-access-denied/16888/4 "2026-02-09T12:25:40Z")

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Closed on February 9, 2026, 12:25pm UTC