Topic: Post Rock installation trouble- "COULD NOT COPY… SOUNDB1.OBW"

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Replied December 9, 2018 at 19:55 #2227016

Olof Hermansson
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The install log should contain a more accurate error. Open it from the File menu in the installer.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
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Replied December 10, 2018 at 12:58 #2227869

squeezenor
Participant

2018-12-09 08:23:48: Trying to copy file EZX2_Post-Rock/Sounds/soundb1.obw
2018-12-09 08:23:48: Error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Toontrack\EZDrummer\EZX2_Post-Rock\Sounds\soundb1.obw is not writable, aborting.

how about that? that came up a bunch toward the end. the last thing was this, also similar:

12/10/2018 3:54:20 AM: Error: Failed to write data to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Toontrack\EZDrummer\EZX2_Post-Rock\Sounds\soundb1.obw”

this was after i extracted all the files. i’m putting the files on an external drive, which was worked for the other ezx’s, so i don’t know if that is an issue.

Replied December 10, 2018 at 15:24 #2227989

Olof Hermansson
Moderator

Well, for some reason, this installer is trying to install to the internal drive. Does the Product Manager still show the other EZXs as installed?

Please open Command Prompt and issue these two commands and show me what it says:

reg query HKLM\SOFTWARE /v HomePath /S

reg query HKCU\SOFTWARE /v HomePath /S

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

Replied December 10, 2018 at 15:59 #2228014

squeezenor
Participant

it sure does show them as installed. it shows them all as installed, and they all work perfectly, save for the post rock. the only interesting thing i noticed is that the post rock is the only product that doesn’t have any checkmarks with parentheses around them. the rest all have one; usually “download”, but some have the “install” check mark in parentheses.

as for the prompts, i got 1 match for the first and 0 for the second one, as shown below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Toontrack\Superior\EZDrummer
HomePath REG_SZ C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Toontrack\EZDrumme
r\

and

End of search: 0 match(es) found.

Replied December 10, 2018 at 16:43 #2228072

Olof Hermansson
Moderator

Thanks. Okay, all the EZXs are apparently on the internal disk then, in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Toontrack\EZDrummer.

Is there a folder EZX2_Post-Rock there? It said “EZX2_Post-Rock\Sounds\soundb1.obw is not writable.” If you click “Install Product” in Product Manager, a newer version of the installer software will be used and it will/may write a more accurate reason for the failure to the log.

A checkmark in parentheses at “Download” means that the download is no longer in the download folder but the product has been installed so that the download is no longer needed. A checkmark in parenthesis at “Install” means that some optional component of the product is not installed (for example the 32-bit software), while all required components are. Click Show Details > Installation Info to see what is and what is not installed.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

Replied December 10, 2018 at 18:19 #2228165

squeezenor
Participant

ok, i got it! i uninstalled everything, threw it away, verified and redownloaded, then installed again via the installer. its working great now.

two questions now: is it safe to throw everything away in the “clear up disk space” tab? and could i somehow move all this over to the external drive, or does it want to be right where it is? i specified the external drive as the download location in the options tab but that didn’t seem to do it. if it has to be there, then that’s fine. i’ll find another way to clear up space.

Replied December 10, 2018 at 19:56 #2228291

Olof Hermansson
Moderator

Glad to hear!

You can use “Move Downloads” in Options for that purpose. But you don’t really have to keep the downloads since they can be downloaded again whenever you’ll need to reinstall something, so “Clean Up” should be fine to use.

Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
Coder

Replied December 10, 2018 at 21:19 #2228431

squeezenor
Participant

can’t thank you enough for the help, olof! having a lot of fun with it now.
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