Oops. I didn't mean to send that, because I don't explain why the
installer leaves it there.
On 17/04/2013 1:55 PM, Stephen Blair wrote:
Well, if you watch 61 seconds of my video about installing 2014, or
any of my other install videos, you would know that the installer
extracts itself to C:\Autodesk and leaves the files there.
On 17/04/2013 1:34 PM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote:
Respectfully, I understand I can do that. That's not the concern.
There are no instructions and no warning or notification that this is
intentionally left behind, that I am aware of. As a result its taking
up huge disk resources. This is especially problematic on SSD drives
since they tend to be much smaller than the average HD drives at 1TB.
With multiple downloaded installs disk space starts disappearing at a
rapid rate and there is no "apparent" cause.
In whatever case, it's poor etiquette. How much trouble would it be
to delete it at the end of the install process or at a minimum warn
the user in the last dialog of the install that it is there and that
it can be deleted at will without harming the proper install. If it
needs to remain or is advantageous to remain so be it, but some
instructions and explanation as to why would be useful.
To be fair, Autodesk isn't the only offender here. The Adobe
downloads are left behind as well. So while one developer might think
it's a harmless practice to leave 10GB of useless data on someone's
hard drive, cumulatively it is a real problem.
--
Joey Ponthieux
LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES)
Mymic Technical Services
NASA Langley Research Center
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*From:*[email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mirko
Jankovic
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 17, 2013 12:06 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: autodesk install housekeeping
Instead of delete you can just move it to some install folder for
later use if needed so no need to create that folder again just
start installer straight from that folder :)
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Angus Davidson
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Stephen
It definitely left the download folder on my machine (this was both
for the Softimage standalone and the full suite) This was using the
DL manager (which works really well, even on my crappy connection)
Kind regards
Angus
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*From:*Stephen Blair [[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>]
*Sent:* 17 April 2013 03:58 PM
*To:* [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: autodesk install housekeeping
Totally safe.
In fact, iirc, the new download manager does all that behind the
scenes (extracts, installs, and then removes)
On 17/04/2013 9:50 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] wrote:
Every time I install Autodesk software it leaves behind a folder
in C:/Autodesk with a lot of stuff that looks like installer
content. Does anyone know if this stuff is safe to delete or
remove? Are there any adverse effects in getting rid of it?
--
Joey Ponthieux
LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES)
Mymic Technical Services
NASA Langley Research Center
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