POV-Ray 3.5b6 (and previous) Win98SE, PIII733, 160MB

If installed on the root of a drive, re-installing adds an extra backslash.
E.g. "d:\\POV-Ray for Windows 3.5" instead of "d:\POV-Ray for Windows 3.5".
The installer then fails since it cannot find that directory.

Michael
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"Redbeard (MDJohnson)" <red### [at] wvadelphianet> wrote in message
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> POV-Ray 3.5b6 (and previous) Win98SE, PIII733, 160MB
>
> If installed on the root of a drive, re-installing adds an extra backslash.
> E.g. "d:\\POV-Ray for Windows 3.5" instead of "d:\POV-Ray for Windows 3.5".
> The installer then fails since it cannot find that directory.

I can't replicate this problem. Are you sure you didn't accidentally type in an
extra '\' ? (it gets the alternate path from you, not from the registry).

-- Chris

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"Chris Cason" <newsadmin-despam-@povray-no-spam.org> wrote in message
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> "Redbeard (MDJohnson)" <red### [at] wvadelphianet> wrote in message
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> > POV-Ray 3.5b6 (and previous) Win98SE, PIII733, 160MB
> >
> > If installed on the root of a drive, re-installing adds an extra backslash.
> > E.g. "d:\\POV-Ray for Windows 3.5" instead of "d:\POV-Ray for Windows 3.5".
> > The installer then fails since it cannot find that directory.
>
> I can't replicate this problem. Are you sure you didn't accidentally type in
an
> extra '\' ? (it gets the alternate path from you, not from the registry).
>
> -- Chris
>

I first installed beta 4 on this machine, and installed it off the root of the D
drive.  Every subsequent install of a new beta has filled in "d:\\POV-Ray for
Windows 3.5" for me.  The first time (beta 5) I questioned it but tried it
anyway.  When it started with the backup it failed (gracefully).  So I went back
and removed the extra slash.  When I installed 6 it did the same thing.  To test
it, I tried the install anyway.  It failed this time, too.  I installed it in
the default location on this machine, and have had no problems.  I can probably
try installing it off the root of another of the drives on this machine to see
if I can duplicate it.

Michael

PS - Great work!  3.5 is turning out to be very nice.

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> I first installed beta 4 on this machine, and installed it off the root of the D
> drive.  Every subsequent install of a new beta has filled in "d:\\POV-Ray for
> Windows 3.5" for me.  The first time (beta 5) I questioned it but tried it

This is very strange - I default the location to %PROGRAM_FILES%\POV-Ray blah blah.
The only way the above could happen is if your system thinks that the default
'Program Files' directory is 'd:\'. And that could only happen if you have modified
it from the default (%PROGRAM_FILES% refers to the registry; this is a system-wide
setting not specific to POVWIN).

The installer does not ask the registry where the last version was installed so it's
not getting it from there.

-- Chris

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> This is very strange - I default the location to %PROGRAM_FILES%\POV-Ray
blah blah.
> The only way the above could happen is if your system thinks that the
default
> 'Program Files' directory is 'd:\'.

That would explain the original problem: if %PROGRAM_FILES% = D:\, then
%PROGRAM_FILES%\POV-Ray = D:\\POV-Ray.

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"Chris Cason" <newsadmin-despam-@povray-no-spam.org> wrote in message
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> > I first installed beta 4 on this machine, and installed it off the root of
the D
> > drive.  Every subsequent install of a new beta has filled in "d:\\POV-Ray
for
> > Windows 3.5" for me.  The first time (beta 5) I questioned it but tried it
>
> This is very strange - I default the location to %PROGRAM_FILES%\POV-Ray blah
blah.
> The only way the above could happen is if your system thinks that the default
> 'Program Files' directory is 'd:\'. And that could only happen if you have
modified
> it from the default (%PROGRAM_FILES% refers to the registry; this is a
system-wide
> setting not specific to POVWIN).
>
> The installer does not ask the registry where the last version was installed
so it's
> not getting it from there.
>
> -- Chris
>
I'll lay odds that's what it is.  I do have the D drive on that machine set up
as the program files directory.  Makes orginazation easier :-)  So, I should
probably change it to read D: instead of D:\.  I'll try it for the next beta.

Thanks!

Michael

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> I'll lay odds that's what it is.  I do have the D drive on that machine set up
> as the program files directory.  Makes orginazation easier :-)  So, I should
> probably change it to read D: instead of D:\.  I'll try it for the next beta.

Please leave it as 'd:\' and tell me if the next beta install behaves.

thanks,

-- Chris

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Beta 7 installed fine.  Thanks!

Michael

"Chris Cason" <newsadmin-despam-@povray-no-spam.org> wrote in message
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> > I'll lay odds that's what it is.  I do have the D drive on that machine set
up
> > as the program files directory.  Makes orginazation easier :-)  So, I should
> > probably change it to read D: instead of D:\.  I'll try it for the next
beta.
>
> Please leave it as 'd:\' and tell me if the next beta install behaves.
>
> thanks,
>
> -- Chris
>
>

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