title: Tensorflow Windows Accessing Folders Denied:"NewRandomAccessFile failed to Create/Open: Access is denied. ; Input/output error"
body: <p>I recently installed Tensorflow for Windows. I am attempting a basic tutorial in which I need to access a folder containing sub-folders of images. </p>
  
  <p>I am not able to access the folder of images because “access is denied”. This happens both in the Anaconda 4.2 prompt and in Pycharm, and using the basic Python 3.5 distribution. </p>
  
  <p>I have given administrator privileges to everything involved and I reinstalled all of the software today so it is all updated to latest versions. </p>
  
  <p>Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated! </p>
  
  <pre><code># change this as you see fit
  image_path = 'C:/moles'
  
  # Read in the image_data
  image_data = tf.gfile.FastGFile(image_path, 'rb').read()
  
  # Loads label file, strips off carriage return
  label_lines = [line.rstrip() for line
                 in tf.gfile.GFile("/tf_files/retrained_labels.txt")]
  
  # Unpersists graph from file
  with tf.gfile.FastGFile("/tf_files/retrained_graph.pb", 'rb') as f:
      graph_def = tf.GraphDef()
      graph_def.ParseFromString(f.read())
      _ = tf.import_graph_def(graph_def, name='')
  
  with tf.Session() as sess:
      # Feed the image_data as input to the graph and get first prediction
      softmax_tensor = sess.graph.get_tensor_by_name('final_result:0')
  
      predictions = sess.run(softmax_tensor, \
                             {'DecodeJpeg/contents:0': image_data})
  
      # Sort to show labels of first prediction in order of confidence
      top_k = predictions[0].argsort()[-len(predictions[0]):][::-1]
  
      for node_id in top_k:
          human_string = label_lines[node_id]
          score = predictions[0][node_id]
          print('%s (score = %.5f)' % (human_string, score))
  
  "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\python.exe" C:/Users/Ryan/Desktop/tfupdate/tf.py
      Traceback (most recent call last):
  
        File "C:/Users/Ryan/Desktop/tfupdate/tf.py", line 7, in &lt;module&gt;
          image_data = tf.gfile.FastGFile(image_path, 'rb').read()
  
        File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\lib\io\file_io.py", line 106, in read
          self._preread_check()
  
        File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\lib\io\file_io.py", line 73, in _preread_check
          compat.as_bytes(self.__name), 1024 * 512, status)
  
        File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\contextlib.py", line 66, in __exit__
          next(self.gen)
  
        File "C:\Program Files\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\tensorflow\python\framework\errors_impl.py", line 469, in raise_exception_on_not_ok_status
          pywrap_tensorflow.TF_GetCode(status))
  
      tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.UnknownError: NewRandomAccessFile failed to Create/Open: C:/moles : Access is denied.
      ; Input/output error
  
      Process finished with exit code 1
  </code></pre>