Mongoexport is not working for collection

Question

I am trying to export a Collection like this:

C:\Program Files\ConEmu>mongoexport --db test --collection person --out personTest.json
connected to: 127.0.0.1
couldn't open [personTest.json]

It is not working. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You most likely are doing this from a non-elevated command prompt, and are denied to write in Program Files.

You can:

• Supply a full path to a directory where you can write, --out C:\Temp\personTest.json
• cd to a directory where you can write and call the executable by full path: C:\Program Files\ConEmu\mongoexport ...
• Execute your command from an elevated prompt.

Answer 2

You do not have write permission in this directory. Change your current location to your home directory or some other directory where you have write permission.e.g My Documents, or Desktop , or user/Andre