When I open up a zip file and try to drag the contents out to the desktop, I get these messages. I used to be able to do it all the time before I switched to Windows 8. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?
Note: I am able to just extract the contents in the same folder by clicking the 'extract' button.
Cannot set C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\Rar$DRa0.685 as the current folder. Access is denied.
Please check permissions of WinRAR folder for temporary files or specify another temporary folder in WinRAR settings.
did you try checking the access rights granted to the temp folder. I think, WinRar needs specific permissions(perhaps Modify) to be able to write.
This is this link which discusses a similar problem with the temp folders. It may help you.
I think that when you try to do a drag-and-drop to do an extract, WinRar uses the temp folder to complete the extraction and de-compression. Now since, the temp folder does not have Write/modify access to 'everyone' therefore this is failing. But when you do a right-click -> extract to, then you explicitly choose a folder where the write permission is already granted.
Do let me know if this works out.