installation folder not writeable, please select a folder now

that error message keeps coming up when loading battery 3 in kore 2. I have komplete 5 and this message has not come up before i ran the electrik piano 1.5 update last night. What do I do, what is this telling me?

 

Are you Vista? If so, make sure you're running both Battery and Kore as administrator.

The other thing that could be triggering it is if your plugin folder's in C:\Program Files. If it is, I'd move it.

In either case, start up Battery as a standalone and reboot. If you move your plugin folder, do that with all NI plugins.

ew

 

Ah- I see by your system profile that you're both Live 8 and Vista, and I''ll bet you're seeing this in Live.

With Live 8, you must run as administrator (and disabling UAC doesn't seem to necessarily do the trick). And, with Live, I'd definitely move your plugins out of C:\Program Files; if you're playing strictly by Vista rules (and it looks like Live 8 is), C:\Program Files is write-protected.

You can move your troublesome plugins to a folder out of C:\Program Files and make a shortcut to it in your normal plugin folder as far as Live goes; Live recognizes shortcuts there.

ew

 

you are correct. I chose "run as administrator" and that fixed the issue. I hesitate to move all my plugins because Kore confuses me with it's local paths when dealing with vista.

check this out, Kore is looking for the koresounds in c:\users\[me]\documents\Native Instruments\Shared Content\Sounds. It is finding all my koresounds there. BUT THE FOLDERS ARE EMPTY IN THAT LOCAL PATH !

They truly exist at C:\program files\common files\nativeinstruments\shared content\sounds\[battery 3]. BUT KORE IS NOT LOOKING FOR THEM THERE ! BUT KORE IS FINDING THEM THERE !

Wow. How?

Keep that in mind when freaking out for 4 hours that your studio is broken :0) Thanks Microsoft !

So the whole ...\users\documents\ directory structure is simply a proxy to ...\program files\common files.

That might be helpful to post over at ableton as well as the NI knowledgebase, I'll post at ableton. Thanks ew!
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Again, very good. How many other people would you guess are going to hit this exact same bump in the road? Probably tens of thousands worldwide ?

 

That's your user content path. Any user sounds will go there.

That's the factory content path, which Kore automatically looks in. That can't be changed.

Wrong. One's user content and one's factory content. The factory content path's write protected, and can't be changed.

The only bump they're going to hit is the run as admin bump with Live because of the adherence to Vista rules; that's why I've posted about it numerous times here, in the Ableton forums and at KVR. This also affects other plugins besides NI's.

The user content vs factory content with NI plugins is well documented both in the manuals and the readmes in the documentation folders of the respective apps.

ew