Re: [Flightgear-devel] Local file error - download aircraft - Windows

[James T. <jam...@kd...>]

> On 17 May 2017, at 00:32, Ron H <ro...@ho...> wrote:
> 
> Using the current next and the windows-nightly.  I do not get the error on my copy of 2017.1.1.  
> I can stop the error from happening if I run FG as administrator. ie. right click on shortcut and
> run as admin.
> 
> I do see the folder as the download happens with the _extract_<guid> where <guid> is a guid value not "guid".
> Now the trouble is that the aircraft in the launcher has a status to update - not install.  I have to close and restart FG
> for the aircraft to go back to install.

Thanks for this (and the other) reports, Ron.

Last time I checked was some months ago on Windows, unfortunately I can’t investigate this issue until I’m back in front of my Windows box on Monday. If anyone wants to look before then, some of the unit tests for SimGear are designed to test precisely this case, since it broke beforehand.

Since running as administrator resolves the issue, it is likely this is a permissions issue with the Aircraft folder - Ron could you share the full path to your download dir, and maybe also the ownership of it (especially, is it writeable by your regular user account from Windows Explorer?)

Kind regards,
James