RED 5.04 installation problem

[Kirk Pitts]

I had a similar problem on my Mac. I had to rebuild permissions and everything worked fine after that. I don’t know the equivalent to fix this on a pc but it is a file permissions problem.

[Theo Van laar]

Thanks. But i have no idea how to rebuild permissions in Windows 7. And I didn’t have this error with RED5.0 or 5.02. So I hope somebody can advice me on how to proceed.

Theo

[Ray Brazier]

Hi, I had the same problem when I tried to instal RED 5. Try these answers:

https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/understanding-windows-7-administrator-accounts/

https://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-take-ownership-and-gain-full-control-permissions-in-windows/

I used the batch script and then right clicked any file or folder that I needed to take ownership of. You can tell which file or folder to change from the message you receive while installing RED.

I don’t know why RED 5 causes this problem. I’ve never had this trouble installing RED 4 or any other software. It seems specific to RED 5 and I wish Boris FX would fix it. Their support was no help.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Guys,

This is all news to me – I have no knowledge of this happening on any other customer systems but I will begin an immediate investigation into the source of the problem. It could be installer related but then again, it might be something else. We’ll know for sure after we meet internally to discuss it.

Thanks,

Peter.

[Kirk Pitts]

This happened to me after I tried to update to the 5.04 from the original Red 5 installer. I had also upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6 in between the original install and the attempt to update. I had the same basic message but in OS X parlance. I usually rebuild permissions after a major change or install but didn’t this time after the 10.6 update.

Just FYI.

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Kirk,

This is really good and useful information and will certainly help us in our attempts to reproduce the issue.

Thanks for passing this along.

Cheers,

peter.

[Theo Van laar]

I have some additional information about the problem. Instead of waiting for RER5.05, I decided today to reinstall RED 5.02 back. But I am not able anymore to install 5.02 or 5.00, while they have been installed on my computer.

Could this all have something to do with a recent windows update?

Theo

[Theo Van laar]

And another piece of information: RED 4 has no problems in being installed on my computer. So the problem seems to be specific for RED 5. I hope this helps in finding a solution.

Theo

[Peter Mcauley]

Hi Theo,

Did you completely uninstall RED 5.0.4 before attempting to install a previous version? If so, you might want to delete anything in the registry for RED 5.0.4 just to be sure that RED 5.0.2 does not see a newer version of itself, which could prevent the install from successfully installing RED onto the target system.

Meanwhile, please know that we are still investigating the source of the problem, which we believe to be a permissions issue.

Thanks,

Peter.

[Theo Van laar]

Hi Peter,

Thanks that you are still looking into my problem. I did not uninstall 5.04. What happens is that the installation stops at the moment you see the error message on the picture (creating folders). Then it rolls back. I guess that means it un-installs itself.

You may be right that it is a permission issue, but then this is still specific for RED 5, since I could install RED 4 back without any problem. But also if it is a permission issue, I really would like to know how to proceed. A google search with error 1926 gave some hits, but not a clear solution.

When I’m at home tonight, I will do a registry cleaning and then try to re-install 5.02 as you suggested. I will let you know if that helps.

Theo