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problems with (having moved) windows temp folder

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Perry Mowbray:
trying to install dc software (updater, etc) I get the message
"unable to create temporary to extract to"
so obviously temp folder is not accessible
-tomos (September 14, 2007, 03:36 AM)
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I note that you have not got back slashes in your path:


Is that an issue? I have back slashes in mine (previous post)  :-\

Grorgy:
temp and tmp are both directed to c:\Documents and Settings\username\Temp 

Edit, these are i think the default settings, never occurred to me to change them lol

tomos:
trying to install dc software (updater, etc) I get the message
"unable to create temporary to extract to"
so obviously temp folder is not accessible
-tomos (September 14, 2007, 03:36 AM)
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I note that you have not got back slashes in your path: (see attachment in previous post)
Is that an issue? I have back slashes in mine (previous post)  :-\

-Perry Mowbray (September 14, 2007, 05:00 AM)
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YES YES YES YES
thanks Perry I was struggling with the idea of losing a day & a halfs work
That was it, Funny I could have sworn there wasnt a backslash there when I went to change it
but who cares  :) :)

tomos:
in other words moving the temp folder is actually no problem
(as long as I get the path correct  :-[ )
I didnt even have to restart for install to work properly

Thanks to Grorgy as well - couldnt even find that out at microsoft!

Phew  :-*

Perry Mowbray:
Edit, these are i think the default settings, never occurred to me to change them lol
-Grorgy (September 14, 2007, 05:08 AM)
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When I popped an extra hard drive into my machine I decided to have a look at what was a good idea for partitioning.

What I discovered was a subject of strongly opinionated options...

I found this page helpful, and in the end though I didn't think I had anything to lose  :) so I ended up implementing something like what was suggested.

And if it makes you feel any better tomos, I think I did exactly the same thing when I was setting up mine (and I too remembered putting in the slash too!)... and it took me a bit of looking to find the problem (so yours was like a "happy" memory  ;))

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