Seems like it might be more effective to run an actual script to step through the process and diagnose where this is breaking down:

use strict;
use warnings 'all';

use Cwd;

my $docs = 'C:\Documents and Settings';

chdir($docs) || die "Couldn't change directory to $docs: $!";

print "Current directory is ", getcwd, "\n";

if (-r 'Administrator') {
        print "Administrator is readable.\n";
} else {
        die "Couldn't read 'Administrator': $!";
}

if (chdir('Administrator')) {
        print "Changed directory to Administrator.\n";
} else {
        die "Couldn't change directory to 'Administrator': $!";
}

print "Current directory is ", getcwd, "\n";

if (opendir(ADMINDIR, "$docs\\Administrator")) {
        print "Opened directory Administrator.\n";
} else {
        die "Couldn't open directory 'Administrator': $!";
}

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By the way, be sure you're not trying to opendir on your directory after you've chdir'ed into it. I caught that mistake in whipping up the above. To opendir on your current working directory, you either have to opendir(DIR, '.') or provide the full path.

In reply to Re: win32/winxp, -r and chdir succeed but opendir fails, permission denied by LonelyPilgrim
in thread win32/winxp, -r and chdir succeed but opendir fails, permission denied by Anonymous Monk

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