Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #22044, comment 29

Timestamp:: Aug 26, 2024 5:58:28 AM (9 months ago)
Author:: Kumba

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Ticket #22044, comment 29

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6	6	I think I did forget a step, TBH. Usually, whenever you run any Windows installer *.exe, it unpacks some files into a randomly-named folder in your %APPDATA%\Local\Temp directory. This random name varies from installer family to installer family.
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8		For Vbox-7.0.20 that I just updated to, while the installer dialog is open, I navigated to the above Temp folder, and in there, I had a recently-created folder with the name "3oqh2qssl2lo97s1jcd9ufp1". Inside that folder was a single MSI file named "8u26fi46vpzdkpqn857h50ss.msi". Copy that MSI off to some other location; in my case, I keep am archive of all my software installers for recovery purposes, so I copied this MSI there. Then, you exit out of the installer dialog, and it'll clean up the folder in Temp.
	8	For Vbox-7.0.20 that I just updated to, while the installer dialog is open, I navigated to the above Temp folder, and in there, I had a recently-created folder with the name "3oqh2qssl2lo97s1jcd9ufp1". Inside that folder was a single MSI file named "8u26fi46vpzdkpqn857h50ss.msi". Copy that MSI off to some other location; in my case, I keep an archive of all my software installers for recovery purposes, so I copied this MSI there. Then, you exit out of the installer dialog, and it'll clean up the folder in Temp.
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10	10	From there, use Orca to find all three references to "VBox_Target_Dir_Is_Valid" and "drop" them (MSI's have a database in them, so you have to "drop" a row to delete it), save the MSI, and close Orca. Then you should be able to run the MSI itself and it'll install w/o complaint.