Cannot activate pycharm licence
have had this issue for a long time
try to activate
get
Error saving license data.
C:\Users\denni\AppData\Roaming\JetBrains\PyCharm2025.1\pycharm.key (Access is denied)
jetbrains support ticket system is useless
anybody else had this problem?
请先登录再写评论。
There is a couple of things we could try:
1. Make sure the config folder is writable. Close PyCharm. Open: %APPDATA%\JetBrains\PyCharm2025.1 (this is the official config path). Try creating a dummy file there. If you can’t, it’s a permissions/security tool issue.
2. If you once ran PyCharm as Administrator, the key file may now be owned by Admin and blocked for your user. You could try:
takeown /f "%APPDATA%\JetBrains\PyCharm2025.1\pycharm.key"
icacls "%APPDATA%\JetBrains\PyCharm2025.1\pycharm.key" /grant "%USERNAME%":F
Please let me know if this helped.
Best regards,
Uros Glogovac
IntelliJ Support