Alex, In one of the updates to the installer ([1]) I added in some checks to help protect against the user trying to select a directory the installer isn't able to install to.
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-34446 Neil -----Original Message----- From: Alex Harui [mailto:aha...@adobe.com] Sent: October-27-14 11:13 AM To: dev@flex.apache.org Subject: Re: Higher than normal installer error rate On 10/26/14, 10:22 PM, "Justin Mclean" <jus...@classsoftware.com> wrote: >Hi, > >> As I typed "windowsError" into Google, the first completion offered >> was "Access denied". Maybe it is the same error as the inability to >> create the temp dir. > >A lot of windows error match the form "WindowsError [error <code>]" >which I think is what google is picking up there. ie access denied is >error no 5. So not sure that is the issue. Yes, it could be other Windows error codes, but the Installer probably doesn't use the OS for much other than file management. My guess is we get this error from AIR when it tries to do something file-related and Windows throws one of its errors. BTW, if it is "access denied" and the other top failure is "unable to create temp dir", I'm wondering if we really need to create a temp dir at all? Does the Installer actually need to write something before the destination folder is chosen? Otherwise, maybe the Installer should create a temp dir in the destination folder. One would expect the destination folder is writeable. The Ant script does that. It creates an "in" folder in the folder it has been expanded into. -Alex
