Python PermissionError: [WinError 31] A device attached to the system is not functioning

Question

Program reads all the files data from the file server shared location and insert data into the database

Here is the code:

class MetrologyObserver(object):
def __init__(self, root_path):
    self.root_path = root_path
    self.event_handler = MetrologyEventHandler()
    self.event_observer = Observer()

def run(self):
    self.schedule()
    self.start()
    try:
        while True:
            time.sleep(1)
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        self.stop()
    self.event_observer.join()

def start(self):
    self.event_observer.start()

def stop(self):
    self.event_observer.stop()

def schedule(self):
    self.event_observer.schedule(self.event_handler,
                                 self.root_path,
                                 recursive=True)
if __name__ == "__main__":
   src_path = r'\\shared folder path'
   MetrologyObserver(src_path).run()

Getting following error while executing python program File "C:\Users\xxxxx\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\watchdog\observers\winapi.py", line 112, in _errcheck_handle raise ctypes.WinError() PermissionError: [WinError 31] A device attached to the system is not functioning.

Screenshot of the error

Answer 1

You can try this solution. It works for me.

https://careerkarma.com/blog/python-permissionerror-errno-13-permission-denied/

If it doesn't work for you, let me know. I can provide another solution.