New version does not allow user to select location for program files.

emmrecs wrote on 9/13/2017, 1:53 PM

I've already raised this as a bug with technical support but thought I would post here, a) to warn others who might be affected, and b) to discover whether I might be the only user affected by this!

Some background: for various reasons I designate my D:\ drive as my "Programs" drive. Apart from a very few programs which, it seems, must be installed on C:\, everything else, including MusicMaker, VPX, Video Sound Cleaning Lab, etc., etc. are installed to D:\...\MAGIX\. I prefer to keep C:\ exclusively for Windows 10 and those few programs.

Having been offered from within MEP 2017 the update to the 2018 version I downloaded it and set it to install. It first uninstalled MEP Premium 2017 and then proceeded with its own installation. Perhaps naively I assumed this new version would install to the same main directory (D:\...\MAGIX\) as all my others, including MEP 2017.

But no, it decided without intervention from me and without me being asked to approve the location, to install to C:\Program Files\MAGIX\, clearly a "new" location.

One of the effects of this is that C:\ is now showing, in Windows Explorer, as being "rather full", not ideal.

Because I maintain quite a strict regime of backups, it was comparatively "easy" to restore MEP 2017; I really do not want MEP (any version) installed on C:\ but can find no method to prevent it doing so. Hence my complaint/ticket/bug report to Magix.

Anyone else met this? Or even got a solution to suggest?

Jeff

Comments

johnebaker wrote on 9/13/2017, 5:06 PM

Hi Jeff

Was there an option to use a Custom installation?

. . . . I really do not want MEP (any version) installed on C:\ . . .

The problem is, no matter which drive you install MEP on, the C: drive is going to get thrashed.

AFAICS, the default Windows TEMP or TMP folder, ie C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Temp folder, is being used for caching an export before copying it to the specified destination drive/folder location.

I suspect this location may also be used for the intermediate files etc when burning a disc.

I would like to see this as a setting in the MEP Folder paths option, so it can be set by the user through MEP rather than altering the location in Windows, thereby reducing the system drive thrashing. This location may also be a possible cause of issues where an SSD drive is used.

John EB

johnebaker wrote on 9/13/2017, 5:20 PM

@ Jeff

As look would have it, the update kicked in after I had posted.

The option to specify the location is

which leads to this when you click the Select target paths.

For some reason the installer does not pick up the current installs paths.

HTH

John EB

emmrecs wrote on 9/14/2017, 3:05 AM

Hi John.

Thanks for the posts and screenshots. I was clearly "sleeping" when those screens appeared!!

Will try again later today.

Jeff

emmrecs wrote on 9/14/2017, 6:18 AM

Hi again.

Final update: everything now installed in locations chosen by me, so I will close this thread since the problem was entirely down to user-error, user-blindness, user-.....!!

Jeff