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At first I thought it was something to do with the code I was trying to drive with selenium, but with a simplified test of go to google.com I ran into the following error.

WebDriverException: Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions.

With chromedriver V93 and V94 I obtain the following error message when I try to run the executable file by itself:

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permissions to access the file"

I do not obtain this error on any previous versions of chromedriver up to V92. I've tried to check permissions and that doesn't appear to be the root cause from what I can tell. It seems as though V93 and V94 throw this error and I can't seem to figure out why that would be.

Thanks.

tangosierra
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  • Does this answer your question? [Selenium on MAC, Message: 'chromedriver' executable may have wrong permissions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49787327/selenium-on-mac-message-chromedriver-executable-may-have-wrong-permissions) – pvy4917 Sep 19 '21 at 09:04
  • I don't think so, I am running on Windows not Mac. I've tried giving chromedriver path permissions as well as running as admin. If I use an earlier version V92 and lower I don't have any issues, it's only for V93 onwards for some reason. – tangosierra Sep 19 '21 at 17:29
  • Did you set perms through code? – pvy4917 Sep 19 '21 at 18:32
  • As it's a windows file system chmod won't work. As far as I can tell it has the right permission. When I tried to change the permission through the command line with `chromedriver /P :F` I get "Access is denied". The thing I can't understand is this is only occurring on the latest chromedriver versions. – tangosierra Sep 23 '21 at 04:27
  • Strangely, V95 which just same out for the version of chrome in development I don't have the problem. So V92 works, V93 and V94 do not, with V95 working again... very confusing. – tangosierra Sep 23 '21 at 04:33

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