Defective Metal Foundry Discs

[Gary Stiltner]

Hey, anyone else get a defective installation disc of Metal Foundry? I was just trying to install it and Disc 2 gets stuck on soundb6.obw and will go no further… How do I get another disc or work around this?

Thanks…

Guv

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[HyperBoy2519]

I have also encountered this problem, not necessarily the same .OBW file but still on TMF.

Also having the same problem with the first disc of the New York Studios Volume 2 (Allaire kit)

[Davoe]

Mac 10.5.8
2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
6G RAM

Yes I can’t install either. It fails on Disk 2. I tried the 33G install the 1st time and it failed. The 2nd time I tried the extended install it failed on a different asset – see screenshots here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/367778/Misc/SLFoundryInstallError1.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/367778/Misc/SLFoundryInstallError2.jpg

I can’t find anywhere on the site to report this & get replacement disks, but I need them.

I followed the instructions I saw & repaired permissions – didn’t fix the issue.

[Gary Stiltner]

Hmm… for once it wasn’t just me. Hopefully someone will chime in and lead us out of the wilderness…

[Dave Modisette]

Try a different DVD drive.  I helped a friend with the same problem.  Turns out that his DVD drive wasn’t up to snuff.

Dave Modisette www.gatortraks.com www.plasticsamerica.com http://www.gatortraks.com/forum

[Gary Stiltner]

Hmm… that might be a problem… only gots the one. Think I can pull all the files off the dvd onto the harddrive and try that way? I didn’t have a problem with Superior…

Thanks…

[Davoe]

ORIGINAL: Dave Modisette
Try a different DVD drive.  I helped a friend with the same problem.  Turns out that his DVD drive wasn’t up to snuff.

I was leaning towards this as well. I can’t install Komplete 5 or 6 either. I can read & write DVD’s all day long but these installer disks are pi$$ing me off. I have to buy another piece of hardware to install things.

I’d much rather download something – even 30GB or so, than deal with having to buy another DVD drive.

I don’t suppose Toontrack will actually let me download this stuff in full?

[Dave Modisette]

I’d much rather download something – even 30GB or so, than deal with having to buy another DVD drive.

You say that now.  It’s time consuming.  Don’t you have a friend who may be able to offload the files to a portable hard drive?

Dave Modisette www.gatortraks.com www.plasticsamerica.com http://www.gatortraks.com/forum

[Davoe]

I say it now, because I deal with extremely large files routinely over the net. 30G I could have in my hands faster than having a friend bring a drive over, but that’s what I’ll have to do because I don’t have any other choice.

[HyperBoy2519]

Just tried to do the copy/paste ona Macbook…no dice…i think i got bad box…both Allaire and TMF

[kurrykid]

I had the problem installing Metal Foundry as well. However, I pulled the disk out, wiped it off, put it back in, and it worked.

Must be something up with the production of disks.

Dave

Dave

[Loyd981]

Hey Everyone:
 
I am have the same problem with the second disc file soundb6.obw. Did anyone find a fix?
 
Thanks
Loyd981

[rictus]

I did as kurrykid, it hung on disk 3 and I just ejected it which threw up an error, but it asked if I wanted to try again. So I wiped the disk off good and put it back in and hit yes. It took awhile to take off again but it finally did.

[jim_k]

Well, this doesn’t sound too promising. I have both NY and METAL coming from Santa!

Jim

Keeper of the Shrine The Lamb Laid Down on MIDI www.lldom.blogspot.com

[Dingo]

All my computers couldnt read files 6. 12. 16 & 18.

Try this :

[*]Run the installer and install the Basic set up (only uses 1 disc)[*]Once it’s finnished manualy drag and drop each soundb.obw file from every CD into TMFs sounds folder where obw. files are found.[*]The files that are corrupt will NOT copy at all.[*]Email Rogue or one of the Tecs and they might be nice enough to let you download the missing files off your account.[*]If not they’ll send you new discs 🙂

Regards, Marcus.

[Davoe]

ORIGINAL: Loyd981
I am have the same problem with the second disc file soundb6.obw. Did anyone find a fix?

My fix was to borrow a USB DVD Drive and install from there. I successfully installed the full 33G of MF. My internal DVD drive just couldn’t do it for whatever reason. I had the same experience with Komplete 5 & 6, which I’m about to try again with this external DVD drive.

I have to say the QC on installer disks lately is questionable. I have no issues reading or writing DVD’s any other time, but I’ve had major issues with the 3 most recent products (only 1 of which is Toontrack I should add – but maybe they’re using the same manufacturer?). Most installers I get these days are downloadable disk images. I realize that’s a lot to expect for something this size, and a lot of bandwidth for Toontrack to pay for. I’d still say as a user, it’d be a nice option, even for the very large size.

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