Algoro Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 I have an error when i try to install the game which says "error writing to file public.zip" i tried to install it elsewhere it didn't work , can someone help me with this ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki1950 Posted July 21, 2014 Report Share Posted July 21, 2014 Not much info to go on here which OS,windows,Linux or OSX they will have different install paths and issues so give us some more informationEnjoy the Choice . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted July 22, 2014 Report Share Posted July 22, 2014 That happens when you don't have enough free space to install the game. Make sure you have at least 1Gb free and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrut Posted March 14, 2015 Report Share Posted March 14, 2015 The thing is that installer needs around 1,5-2 GB of free space on the C disk (in Windows case), even if you are installing it on another disk which has plenty of space. Public.zip is being extracted to Temp folder and then its content copied to the installation folder. So, if you have low disk space on C, you will get this error too. I understand, that this must be a nature of many installers and extractors for Windows, to use temporary folder for extraction, but maybe it is possible to tune it to use the destination folder for extraction. This will probably also increase the installation speed (no need to copy things from one place to another). This can be observed by watching how free disk space changes in C and in the destination drive during the installation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fcxSanya Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) I understand, that this must be a nature of many installers and extractors for Windows, to use temporary folder for extraction, <...>This seem to be caused by using the SOLID compression option. At least there are some (old) discussions: 1, 2 referring to it. <...>, but maybe it is possible to tune it to use the destination folder for extraction.The temp folder is used internally by the installer software (NSIS) rather than controlled by the install script. Maybe the script can temporary override the temp folder location, but this has to be examined and I don't know whether this is a good idea. We also can just warn user that regardles of install location, additional XX GB will be needed on the drive where TEMP dir is located (so he may change the TEMP folder location himself or cleanup some space etc. if needed). Edited March 16, 2015 by fcxSanya 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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