Invalid Drive error when using network drive for CC3Plus data directory
Calan
Newcomer
Hi there,
I use macOS on my home computer. I initially tried wine for CC3+, but unsurprisingly fonts were too inconsistent, so I decided to fire up VMWare Fusion and use that instead. I went with installing Windows 7 Home Basic for a small footprint and took a snapshot of the VM after I had Windows fully installed.
I initially installed CC3+ with the data directory in the default location (c:\programdata\...) along with CD3 and DD3 and was having a good play following some tutorials. Once I started editing some of templates etc I thought it'd be better for me to have the data directory outside the vm (VMWare lets you share a folder from the host so it appears as a mounted drive on Z:) so it could be picked up with my backup runs without having to backup the entire VM (that's excluded from my backups and I'll back that up manually now and again).
I initially tried uninstalling and reinstalling CC3+, pointing data to Z:\cc3plus. Install of the base CC3+ went fine, but as soon as I tried CD3, I got an error that CC3+ was too old a version. Strange, as the installer is 3.94. Anyway, I tried running the update 25 patch, and that ran with some errors, though said it 'succeeded'. Still CD3 said CC3+ was too old a version. I tried uninstalling CC3+ again, but it threw the error 'invalid drive: z:\'. After a bit of Googling, I read there could be problems with moving the data location after a reinstall, so I rolled back the VM to the snapshot I had taken before installing CC3+ in the first place.
But even after a clean install of CC3+ using Z:\CC3Plus for data, I'm getting the same issues. CC3+ installs fine with data going to z:\cc3plus and it runs perfectly, but when I try to install CD3, I get the error that CC3+ is too old a version and if I try to uninstall CC3+ I get the 'invalid drive: z:\' error.
So it feels like the issue isn't that I moved the data location, but that it's not liking data being on a network share mapped to a drive letter.
Before logging a support ticket, I thought I'd check here to see if anyone else has used a network share mapped to a drive letter for CC3+ data or has any advice on this issue?
Cheers!
Comments
One potential problem could be windows UAC causing this. UAC often causes a problem with network drives and installers, because even if the drive is mapped in your normal user session, it is not brought along to the elevated session windows uses when running installers.
Good suggestion, Monsen. I'll do another snapshot rollback, disable UAC, and give it another try.
Disabling UAC for the installs seems to have done the trick - I've just successfully installed CD3 with the data being on the mapped drive. :D
Thanks much, Monsen!