>>Hi,
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>>You should be able to place the project where ever you wish (you can set the default location in 'Tools/Projects and Solutions')
>>The only time I've seen the error you mention is when the location is specifed using a UNC path (or possibly a mapped drive) - presumably that's not the case with your C drive? Maybe there's some other CAS policy set?
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>>Regards,
>>Viv
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>The files were marked as read-only. Once I unmarked them, it worked.

Interesting. Which files exactly were marker R/O? - I just tested by marking the entire bin folder as R/O and didn't get any errors opening the project - but I did, obviously, get errors on build. This was on a project under source control so most files were R/O anyway.