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JackthecamelJackthecamel Member Posts: 3
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Each time I try, the installer stops at one of the .stuff files and refuses to continue. For example: "Extract: error writing to resFace.stuff"

My gear: AMD Athlon 64 3200+, Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT, winXP, more than enough disk space and RAM.

Anyone else out there had similar problems installing?

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  • SnaKeySnaKey Member Posts: 3,386

    Download error.

    Redownload.

    It happens w/ files as large as EVE sometimes. Even if you download at 400kbps like me.

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  • JackthecamelJackthecamel Member Posts: 3

    thanks

    Tried that a while ago, I'm now getting a couple of .stuff files further than before untill it happens again... a step in the right direction I guess :)

    First day of trial turning into a night now, maybe tomorrow I'll try downloading the installer for the third time.

  • SnaKeySnaKey Member Posts: 3,386

    Try a different dl server.

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  • Nu11u5Nu11u5 Member Posts: 597

    How much free space do you have left on your Hard Drive? I got this error before too.

    When EVE installs it first extracts its files to a temporary directory before moving them to its final install directory. If you don't have enough space for the files to extract to, it will fail. EVE needs about 600MB installed, So I would make sure that you have at least 1.5 Gigs free just to be on the safe side.

    If your not sure how to free up this much space, here are some suggestions:

    Run Disk Cleanup Wizard. This will ask to delete all of the files used at one time by Windows, but are no longer needed. You can run it by going into the Start Menu and selecting...

    Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Cleanup

    When prompted, select the drive you wish to install EVE on (if you only have the one C: drive, you probably won't get asked this). Then check all of the boxes for which unused files it can delete - don't worry, none of these will be your personal files, program install, etc. Click OK and wait for it to finish. If afterwards you have at least 1.5GB or about that free, then go ahead and install EVE.

    If the above fails to help you, you might want to try transferring files to another medium, like a separate hard drive or CD/DVD-R's, or uninstalling older programs.

    Might not be your problem. GL on figuring this out!

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  • ScarisScaris Member UncommonPosts: 5,332

    Originally posted by Jackthecamel

    Each time I try, the installer stops at one of the .stuff files and refuses to continue. For example: "Extract: error writing to resFace.stuff"My gear: AMD Athlon 64 3200+, Nvidia Geforce 6600 GT, winXP, more than enough disk space and RAM.Anyone else out there had similar problems installing?

    I have had this problem countless times with them from countless computers. All I could do is keep re-downloading it til I got a good copy.

    - Scaris

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  • JackthecamelJackthecamel Member Posts: 3


    Thanks for help everyone.

    My mistake right from the beginning. The drive I was installing EVE into, has tens of gigs free space. But, what I didn't at first realize was that I had downloaded the installer to my OS drive, which had at that time only about 500 megs of space left.

    So what I did was simply move the installer to the same drive where I'm installing into.

    No proplems since.

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