FYI - DOpus won't install due to Temp folder reassignment

DOpus 12.19, WIndows 10 x64

As the Topic says, a few days ago I installed a Ramdisk (drive X:) and reassigned the System & User TEMP and TMP Environment variables. I've had no issues until I tried to install DOpus 12.19. The installation hung for a few seconds then just quit, no messages whatsoever. Task Manager showed two entries for "Installshield(R) 64-bit Setup Engine" which I ended up killing. There were two .dmp files created; Setupexe.dmp and Setupexe(1).dmp. I removed the Ramdisk and reassigned the TEMP & TMP folders to there normal settings and the DOpus installation finished without any issues. Just thought I'd document it here in case others have experienced strange installation issues.

Bob Gregory

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There's an alternative installer you can try (still in testing but we can send it to you if you want to try it).

However, moving the temp folder to a RAM disk seems risky as there are quite a few things (installers for various software and drivers I can think of) which will write files to temp and expect them to still be there after a system restart. Breaking that seems a very bad idea to me.

I did consider the temp files not being there on a reboot but figured I'd give it a try. After this issue I decided to remove the Ramdisk. I will gladly test your new installer though.

Thanks Leo

Here's how to get it, although it's less important if you aren't seeing any issues anymore: