bigchabo
15th June 2003 22:38 UTC

Mysterious overwriting error
Hi everybody,

My installer has been working yet, but as I compiled it with NSIS 2 Beta 3 the installer shows error messages like: "Cannot overwrite /dir/file.ext".
This occurs only when the installer tries to copy files to a sub directory in the intallation directory.
I wonder if the sub dirs are write protected, because the installer just created them.

The installer worked fine with NSIS 2 beta 1


thanks
bigchabo

Joost Verburg
16th June 2003 08:34 UTC

Can you attach a script?

bigchabo
16th June 2003 10:40 UTC

The Script
This is my first NSIS-Installer (for my first published Program). I think it's very disordered, but it works fine with beta 1
Thank you for your interest!

Here is the script:

[edited by kichik]please attach large scripts next time. script attached below :down:[/edit]

Joost Verburg
16th June 2003 11:31 UTC

You don't have to set the file attributes. Do you get a messagebox with an error? Make sure no other application uses the directory, try to reboot your system.

bigchabo
16th June 2003 12:21 UTC

The SetAttribute-statement was just a try.

The error messages are displayed in series of messageboxes.
These messages only occur for files that are to be written in a sub directory.

kichik
16th June 2003 12:56 UTC

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kichik
16th June 2003 13:36 UTC

There was a bug in the code that was supposed to fix a bug in your code. Use NSIS Update to get the latest version from CVS and it should work.

The problem in your code is that there is an ending quote on each File command but no opening quote. This is treated as part of the file name but is an invalid file name. Therefor NSIS can't write that file.

BTW, you can replace CheckJava by .onInit to make sure that check is made before everything else.

bigchabo
16th June 2003 13:52 UTC

Thank you very much!!!!