murph wrote:Hi Marc,
I went through this with the first muti-part rar file I tried to install. It gave all the errors etc you have encountered. Even with all the files on the USB drive, and room for un-packing, HW gave errors. It only worked properly when the files were on an internal drive. (It doesn't matter which, I have 5 and they all work for this)
If you are running out of space, maybe add another drive for HW's "samplesets and components", which don't need to be on a fast drive?
Good luck with installing!
Tony.
Alerted by this I just tried this myself and I can confirm the issue. Apparently when installing from an external drive (USB stick) HW first copies the selected file to a temporary folder on the local drive, but it only copies the file you selected. Then the unpack fails, as only that single file was copied. When installing from a local drive (doesn't matter which one) HW omits the copying step and directly starts the unpacking, which then works.
So I can confirm the issue, but I have no explanation why HW does it. Apparently this is programmed into HW on purpose to increase stability when installing from poor external dirves, but in this case it breaks the process. I was not aware of this issue before, sorry.
As a consequence I will do two things:
First: I will add a note to that on the web page so that people are alerted to it.
Second: I will extend the evaluation period by one week to last until February 10th.
Sorry for any inconvenience this has created!
Best regards
Reiner