Unable to start Paladins (Content File Locked)

[Yukaroen]

So earlier today, the new patch downloaded and I was able to play until I had to go to classes a little later. I came back and started up paladins only to see that it downloaded something and it was stopped at 99% Apparently HiRezBridge.exe is unable to be opened and it says I don't have the permissions to open it.
(NOTE: I am the owner and admin of this computer and I can't open it even under administrator.) I do have McAffee but it doesn't seem to be blocking Paladins so I can only think that sometime between my going to class around 4 hours ago and coming back 3 hours later, something happened
If anyone has an idea of what might've happened, I appreciate you letting me know.

[Hellbunny88]

at first it would tell me paladins could not locate hirez launcher.. so i re-installed.
Now i get the same error.. Content File Locked.

guess no paladins or login today!

EDIT: Shut down steam.. rebooted my PC then the download finished and was not locked.
BUT.. now it says it cant find the hirez launcer again.. omg.. this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game..

[[☥] - CJ -]

Reinstalling the game has nothing to do with its Services as they are separate

Goto the Binaries/Redist folder for the game and install/reinstall every .exe you see there, that should help.

[Yukaroen]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

Reinstalling the game has nothing to do with its Services as they are separate

Goto the Binaries/Redist folder for the game and install/reinstall every .exe you see there, that should help.

No no, you don't get it. I can't even open up anything in the Redist folder. It says I don't have the permissisons for it even though I'm the administrator.

[[☥] - CJ -]

did you try right clicking them and selecting run as admin?

[Yukaroen]

Originally posted by ☥ - CJ -:

did you try right clicking them and selecting run as admin?

Yes. I tried that and manually making myself admin via properties but NOTHING. It's really weird.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Are any other files locked? make sure its only those and not ones in other locations as well.

[anicow]

the reason is your virus program deleting the file. this has happened to me with Avast and i never noticed until checking the virus chest for an unrelated issue.

[Yukaroen]

Originally posted by dacowgomoo1:

the reason is your virus program deleting the file. this has happened to me with Avast and i never noticed until checking the virus chest for an unrelated issue.

you're like hella late

[Kanu]

Originally posted by Kitaro:

Originally posted by dacowgomoo1:

the reason is your virus program deleting the file. this has happened to me with Avast and i never noticed until checking the virus chest for an unrelated issue.

you're like hella late

Actually, 2019, this is still a thing.
Avast indeed still detects Paladin.exe as infected and locks it, so thank you for identifying the problem Dacowgomoo1. Super helpful.

[ab]

Originally posted by dacowgomoo1:

the reason is your virus program deleting the file. this has happened to me with Avast and i never noticed until checking the virus chest for an unrelated issue.

thank you so much its super helpful indeed!!