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•Created by .a on 12/30/2022 in #help

❔ My code cant write to a certain path

Basically i have a script to download a file from github into a specific folder and when i click the button that runs the code it tells me it doesnt have access to the path. Code. Using framework 4.8, c# visual form project

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;


namespace BPRINSTALLER
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private static byte[] DownloadFile(string url)
        {
            // Create a new WebClient object
            using (var client = new WebClient())
            {
                // Use the WebClient's DownloadData method to download the contents of the specified URL
                return client.DownloadData(url);
            }
        }

        private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Initialize a string variable with the URL of a file on GitHub
            string fileUrl = "https://github.com/FowningFrog/burnout_mods/blob/main/350Z/VEH_PDSVK0B_AT.BIN";
            // Call the DownloadFile method to download the contents of the file at the specified URL
            byte[] fileContents = DownloadFile(fileUrl);
            // Initialize a string variable with the file path where the downloaded file will be saved
            string filePath = @"C:\Users\UKGC\Downloads\test";
            // Use the WriteAllBytes method of the File class to write the contents of fileContents to the specified file path
            File.WriteAllBytes(filePath, fileContents);
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;


namespace BPRINSTALLER
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private static byte[] DownloadFile(string url)
        {
            // Create a new WebClient object
            using (var client = new WebClient())
            {
                // Use the WebClient's DownloadData method to download the contents of the specified URL
                return client.DownloadData(url);
            }
        }

        private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            // Initialize a string variable with the URL of a file on GitHub
            string fileUrl = "https://github.com/FowningFrog/burnout_mods/blob/main/350Z/VEH_PDSVK0B_AT.BIN";
            // Call the DownloadFile method to download the contents of the file at the specified URL
            byte[] fileContents = DownloadFile(fileUrl);
            // Initialize a string variable with the file path where the downloaded file will be saved
            string filePath = @"C:\Users\UKGC\Downloads\test";
            // Use the WriteAllBytes method of the File class to write the contents of fileContents to the specified file path
            File.WriteAllBytes(filePath, fileContents);
        }
    }
}

Any help is appreciated <3

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