# Windows artifact issue - "access denied" when installing Plots/Makie

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-artifact-issue-access-denied-when-installing-plots-makie/103734>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [September 11, 2023, 9:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-artifact-issue-access-denied-when-installing-plots-makie/103734 "2023-09-11T09:35:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![visr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/visr/32/17204_2.png) [@visr](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/visr)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2023, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/windows-artifact-issue-access-denied-when-installing-plots-makie/103734/6 "2023-09-22T17:45:05Z")

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Since I started using 1.10.0-beta2 as my daily driver I sporadically run into the same issue, but nothing I can reproduce. If I delete the read-only artifact and add it again, it works.

For instance, this just happened randomly with LibPQ\_jll: [[GDAL] fix version\_offset by visr · Pull Request #7412 · JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil (github.com)](https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/pull/7412#issuecomment-1731607607), where all files in the artifact were suddenly `mode: 0o100444 (-r--r--r--)` instead of `mode: 0o100666 (-rw-rw-rw-)`.

```julia
julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.10.0-beta2
Commit a468aa198d (2023-08-17 06:27 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 24 × 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12800HX
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, alderlake)
  Threads: 23 on 24 virtual cores
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = code
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 16
  JULIA_PKG_PRESERVE_TIERED_INSTALLED = true
  JULIA_PKG_SERVER = juliahub.com
  JULIA_PKG_USE_CLI_GIT = true
  JULIA_PROJECT = @.

```

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