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Spring Lobby issues "Couldn't create folder..." etc.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 00:39
by Tsukihime
I have been using Spring Downloader all this time, but I would like to know how to get Spring Lobby to work. I have downloaded it and installed it, but every time I try to get into the game it first gives me and error that says this: "Couldn't create folder. Be sure there isn't a write protection. Log function is disabled until restart SpringLobby."
There's no firewalls or anything stopping it like that, and I really don't know what's going on with it. After I click "OK" to get rid of that small window, the program comes up but I can't do anything with it. At all.[quote][/quote]

Re: Spring Lobby issues "Couldn't create folder..." etc.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 01:12
by slogic
What's SL version? What's your OS? Where is SL installed?

Re: Spring Lobby issues "Couldn't create folder..." etc.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 01:16
by Tsukihime
My OS is Windows Vista.
Spring Lobby was downloaded into Drive C, where everything else goes o_O
And I think it's version 0.85. That's what it says on the bottom of the window anyway.
I just tried uninstalling and reinstalling it. Still the same error.

Re: Spring Lobby issues "Couldn't create folder..." etc.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 09:05
by hoijui
if it can not create a folder, that indicates a file-system issue, not a network issue. so you could try installing/running as admin, or install somewhere else.

Re: Spring Lobby issues "Couldn't create folder..." etc.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 11:31
by slogic
Tsukihime wrote:Spring Lobby was downloaded into Drive C, where everything else goes o_O...
This is bad report. If you've installed into "Program Files" then you failed. Try another location.

Re: Spring Lobby issues "Couldn't create folder..." etc.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010, 14:17
by BrainDamage
that is unitsync again picking the wrong read-write dir ... ( sl has proper manifest so it cannot write in program files and won't get virtualized either )
as suggested above, install somewhere other than program files, hopefully next version's unitsync will be less stupid