Choose the Security tab and click your name under Group or User.
Right-click the inaccessible file or folder, and then select Properties from the drop-out menu.
Since the error message suggests that 'you may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item', you should first check if you have the permission of the file or folder when Windows cannot access the file or folder. Solution 1: Get the Permission of the File or Folder Or it is blocked by the anti-virus software of your computer. The file has been deleted or move to other location. You are clicking a shortcut to access a file on an external drive or a network location that is now not properly connected to the PC or is not available. You don't have permissions to the file, the folder or the drive. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item' because of one of the following reasons. You are seeing the message 'Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file.
Causes for 'Windows cannot access the specified device path or file' Error
