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Having trouble upgrading to Vegas 8.1
My system is a Quad core running 64 bit Vista. 8 Gb ram.
I have version 8.0b Vegas running now with no problems. I downloaded the upgrade file for version 8.1 because it is for 64 bit Vista.
The problem I have is it never makes it past the a certain point in the install process and gives me an error message as follows:
“An error occurred attempting to create the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Shared Plug-Ins. ”
First of all I am logged in as Administrator and have verified I have “Full Control” Privileges. In addition, I was able to upgrade the DVD Architecture 4.5 to 5.0a with no trouble. I also installed Sony Picture Motion Browser with no problem. I also went into that directory and wrote some files to it. Changed those file names and back again to confirm I had full control and privileges.
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You will get this Windows error if another program has a file in the target directory open. Make sure that all applications are closed and try again.
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Try renaming your current shared folder to something else. If you can’t, then you need to figure out why. If you can, then the install should create a new one. Then just copy the contents of the old folder to the new and delete the old folder.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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Finally got both 8.1 and 8.0c loaded. Appears that the permissions were incorrect in the Sony/Vegas 8.0 folder and sub folders. It was a long and difficult process to correct each file. Some of the sub folders were able to be corrected using inherit from parent folder but many I had to go in and manually reassign the ownership first and then reset the permissions to Full control second. Once this was done I was able to do the two upgrades.
A few of my plugins don’t seem to work with 8.1 but with 8.0c loaded I think I’ll have what I need.
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