Also, I'm not sure if you'll have to do this but when I start pixinsight I hold down the shift key right click on the icon and choose to run as administrator. It seems I had a trouble accessing some file at some point until I did that not sure if it's relevant but thought I'd throw it out there
Please don't do that! Running a powerful application like PixInsight with full administrative rights is
extremely dangerous, not just on Windows, but on any operating system. The only component of PixInsight that can be used with administrative rights (or as the root user on UNIX/Linux) is the PixInsightUpdater program, which is executed automatically to apply updates. Other than the updater, the rest of
PixInsight must always be executed from a regular user account without permanent administrative rights.The main reason for this warning, among others, is that by running something like PixInsight as an administrator you open a huge door to do
anything, literally, to your system.
I just made a directory called swaptemp in pixinsight folder, added it to the global swap file options, removed the win temp option and applied.
That's the right solution, but please use a directory under your home folder, where your regular user—that is, when you are
not an administrator—, has full read/write permissions.
