Problems renaming and batch renaming in Bridge

Hello Everyone,
I am having trouble renaming files in Bridge.
I am connected to my companies server but on certain folders I cannot rename files within here. The batch rename button becomes unclickablle.
I have tried purging the cache for individual folders but no luck as of yet.
Any help would be amazing.
Thanks.

then it is the folder or they said you had access but it is not the case. Don't know how you check this yourself but on a Mac a simple get info command on a file, folder or disk shows if I have access at all and if I have read an write permissions instead of read only.
If you can rename the files locally but can't copy them to the new location it seems this location is the problem. Just for proof try to copy the same file to a new folder somewhere else.

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