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| Posted by
| j0nas
(56 posts) Bio
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| Fri 05 Jan 2007 05:26 PM (UTC) |
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| Hi, it's me again, with yet another installer-problem. I don't know what it's with me and these installers, maybe they just doesn't like me?
Anyway, I've just reinstalled windows on my machine, and when I try to install the latest MUSHclient I get the following error during the install, about 75% of the way through:
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MUSHclient Installer
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Error opening file for writing:
".\worlds\plugins\constants.vbs"
Hit abort to abort installation,
retry to retry writing the file, or
ignore to skip this file
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Abort Retry Ignore
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If that particular message is ignored, another similar one follows for the next file destined for that directory, and the next, and the next.
This seemed like a strange error to be having, so I tried a few older installers, and a few different install-paths. I've tried installing MUSHclient on two different drives, on several different paths, and I've tried the installer for v3.84, v3.82, v3.80. As the v3.80 installer worked for me last time I tried to install MUSHclient, that it won't work now is somewhat mystifying.
Do the installers work for everyone else? Any suggestions as to what I should be looking at, when trying to solve this problem locally? It does seem overwhelmingly likely that the problems I'm having are local, even though I've had no problems other than this as of yet. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,158 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Sat 06 Jan 2007 03:57 AM (UTC) |
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| | It seems likely that you have kept the old installation, but deleted the directories. The installer consults the Registry for where to put things, and if there are no Registry entries, makes default ones. However if there are Registry entries, and they point to what are now non-existant folders, then you will have a problem. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| j0nas
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| Reply #2 on Sat 06 Jan 2007 05:34 AM (UTC) |
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| You were right, there was some stuff in my registry. I had used my old MUSHclient-install once, saved from my older windows-install, and apparently that one added some crud to the registry. Seems strange to me that it would cause this problem, since that MUSHclient was run from the exact directory where the new MUSHclient was being installed to, but no matter, things worked just fine once I deleted the old entries in the registry.
Thank you. | | Top |
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