Update Problem of RC3 under VMWare Win8

[Lex]

Hi everybody,

I am no longer able to updt PI under VMware Win8 environment ? I am getting the attached Error Msg?
Since I am not very familiar with Win8, I can not isolate the origin of the problem..
Any Ideas?

BTW.: this doesn't mean that it's a bug; not necessary 

Thanks!

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Lex,

From the screenshot, this looks like a folder permissions problem. We use Windows on VMware virtual machines all the time, and have never seen this problem. Can you try on a physical machine? On a different user account? Somebody else can confirm this issue?

[Lex]

Hi Juan,

I already thought the same but appearently nothing changed in the permissions. The sharing options did not change, I think so...
The problem showed up after the upgrade so the native windows 7 wasn't touched to deeply.
Thing I did not try is to reinstall PI completely.
Sadly I do not have a physical Win8 machine and as I am the admin on the Virtual Machine I do not think that this originates the problem.
I will give it a try by reinstalling and keep you posted if the problem persists..

Thanks Juan!

[Lex]

Hi,

I uninstalled RC3 and reinstalled it. The program as usual told that there were updates available; and I got the same error message than last time?
I installed the 64bit Win version and the errors message says something related to 32bit?
I can not figure out what this could be?

[Lex]

On the other hand the path of the error message does not exist, it does the match with the "real" disk structure?! 

[georg.viehoever]

The AppData directory may be hidden?!? Maybe it contains a version of the file from a previous update that it cannot delete.
Georg

[Lex]

Georg,

this may be a solution, I'll give it a try 

thanks for the input!!

Best

[Lex]

Good evening friends,

just found the folder in question that is proclamed not beeing empty...
Unfortunately it is empty? What now?

Best

[Lex]

Guys;

problem solved. I tried to empty the different folders of the folder doc without succes.
I then simply moved the doc folder; and see there, RC3 update without any error message?
Kind of strange; isn't it?

Best