Issues with 'Ransomware protection/Controlled Folder Access' Windows 10 (1903)

I've turned on Ransomware protection/Controlled Folder Access (New feature in Win 10 1903) and now the minimaps are in a undiscovered stage after I portal out and back.

Ransomware protection works in a way that Windows creates a white-list of apps that are allowed to write to my documents or other optional protected folders.

I have the game installed in D:\Games\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile and white-listed the following apps:

"D:\Games\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile\PathOfExile.exe"
"D:\Games\Grinding Gear Games\Path of Exile\PathOfExile_x64.exe"

The issues with the mini maps remains.

Any suggestion?





Last bumped on Oct 1, 2019, 3:16:26 PM
C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile\Minimap

minimapes are stored in documents folder

whitelist Client.exe also or dont use paranoid w10 functions, noone understands how they are working :D
Last edited by Sonidox#3895 on Sep 30, 2019, 4:04:02 PM
Yes I know where the minimaps are stored.

The game has access to the documents folder and subfolders but it seems that choosing PathOfExile.exe and PathOfExile_x64.exe as a whitelist for
'Controlled Folder Access' is not enough.
this is not a GGG bug so this post should have been made under the Help part of the forum.
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Sonidox wrote:
C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Path of Exile\Minimap

minimapes are stored in documents folder

whitelist Client.exe also or dont use paranoid w10 functions, noone understands how they are working :D



Whitelisting Client.exe solved the problem!

When you've been affected by ransomware before then you are appreciate such paranoid features in windows :D
Then don't open random emails or visit websites you know nothing about. You don't get those sort of things just by random.
No rest for the wicked.

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