The software is being run from a directory that doesn't have restricted permissions (avoiding C:\Program Files for portable apps is a common rule of thumb).
Elias looked at the extraction drive in his hand, then at the monolith. He couldn't save the data. But he could save the structure. codexcdx was not found portable
If the file is completely gone, it likely was deleted the moment you unzipped the folder. The software is being run from a directory