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Install Fails While Writing a File to Workbench
Partition
Product: Video Toaster, Flyer, Lightwave
Platforms: 2000 3000 3000T 4000 4000T
Problem: When installing NewTek Software, the install
fails while writing files to the Workbench partition.
Example error messages:
Cannot write lz.decomp (pre-4.x software)
Cannot write Switcher.font
Cannot write flyer.library (or any other ".library")
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If this is a re-install or an update of your NewTek
software, then there are already files in place
with the same name, and these files are write-protected.
Check and de-protect any Toaster-related files
present on the Workbench partition, then retry
the install.
- If this is a first time installation, check to
see that the Workbench partition is not already full.
If the partition is full, then you need to clear
about one megabyte of space to do a Toaster, Flyer,
or LighWave installation, if the software's main
directory is actually being installed to another
partition. If the software is being installed on
the same partition as the Workbench system files,
consult the manual for your NewTek product to find
out how much space is needed.
Note: If the Workbench partition has been invalidated,
then files cannot be written to it. An invalidated
partition will be listed as 100% full, until it has
been re-validated. If the system crashes while a file
is being written, then the partition to which the file
was being written will be invalid.
Most of the time, if you reboot a system on which
a drive has been invalidated, AmigaDOS will revalidate
the drive. If on reboot, the drive stays very active
for a long time, then it is being revalidated.
If AmigaDOS does not revalidate the drive, then you
will need to use a utility such as Disksalv, QuarterBack
Tools, or AmiBack Tools, to repair the file structure
on the drive, and revalidate the drive.
