Argh!
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[rant/query] I wonder if anyone else has had this problem: Yesterday, I was trying to install Eclipse, but I keep getting this error box popping up saying "Error: Cannot find network path: %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures". I'm thinking, wtf? So I ask around a bit; no one has any idea what drugs I'm apparently on. :sigh: Start doing some investigating into the registry, I notice that under "User Shell Folders", it has a list of all my "special folders" (old news, eh?). But, what was interesting was that the "My Pictures" entry was a REG_SZ, and NOT a REG_EXPAND_SZ, like all the others were. This is obviously why the installer couldn't find the folder path (why the firetruck it needs to know the My Pictures folder when I'm trying to install Eclipse is beyond me). So, I delete the "My Pictures" key, and add a new REG_EXPAND_SZ key with the same name and value. Installer works fine, now that it can properly handle the expandable string and I chalk this up to "silly Windows". Fast forward to today. Once again, I'm installing something (BEA's WebLogic), which happens to use the same install program. Once again, same error message. I go check the registry, and once again, the "My Pictures" entry is a REG_SZ, and *not* a REG_EXPAND_SZ. :wtf: wtf is this?? Does this mean that everytime i try to install something, i'm going to have to "reset" the registry entry?? :sigh: What program would decide that the registry entry should be a REG_SZ instead?? Luckily I'm on a XP box, because with 2k, you can't manually create a EXPAND_SZ. So I would have had to hard-code the %USERPROFILE% variable to the correct "C:\Documents and Settings\etc.." value. All I can do is chalk it up to "silly windows", eh? :sigh: [/rant/query] The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
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[rant/query] I wonder if anyone else has had this problem: Yesterday, I was trying to install Eclipse, but I keep getting this error box popping up saying "Error: Cannot find network path: %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures". I'm thinking, wtf? So I ask around a bit; no one has any idea what drugs I'm apparently on. :sigh: Start doing some investigating into the registry, I notice that under "User Shell Folders", it has a list of all my "special folders" (old news, eh?). But, what was interesting was that the "My Pictures" entry was a REG_SZ, and NOT a REG_EXPAND_SZ, like all the others were. This is obviously why the installer couldn't find the folder path (why the firetruck it needs to know the My Pictures folder when I'm trying to install Eclipse is beyond me). So, I delete the "My Pictures" key, and add a new REG_EXPAND_SZ key with the same name and value. Installer works fine, now that it can properly handle the expandable string and I chalk this up to "silly Windows". Fast forward to today. Once again, I'm installing something (BEA's WebLogic), which happens to use the same install program. Once again, same error message. I go check the registry, and once again, the "My Pictures" entry is a REG_SZ, and *not* a REG_EXPAND_SZ. :wtf: wtf is this?? Does this mean that everytime i try to install something, i'm going to have to "reset" the registry entry?? :sigh: What program would decide that the registry entry should be a REG_SZ instead?? Luckily I'm on a XP box, because with 2k, you can't manually create a EXPAND_SZ. So I would have had to hard-code the %USERPROFILE% variable to the correct "C:\Documents and Settings\etc.." value. All I can do is chalk it up to "silly windows", eh? :sigh: [/rant/query] The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
Atlantys wrote: wtf is this?? "This" is a bunch of developers being stupid and not following the rules: The Rules according to Raymond Chen[^]
When I can talk about 64 bit processors and attract girls with my computer not my car, I'll come out of the closet. Until that time...I'm like "What's the ENTER key?" -Hockey on being a geek
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[rant/query] I wonder if anyone else has had this problem: Yesterday, I was trying to install Eclipse, but I keep getting this error box popping up saying "Error: Cannot find network path: %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures". I'm thinking, wtf? So I ask around a bit; no one has any idea what drugs I'm apparently on. :sigh: Start doing some investigating into the registry, I notice that under "User Shell Folders", it has a list of all my "special folders" (old news, eh?). But, what was interesting was that the "My Pictures" entry was a REG_SZ, and NOT a REG_EXPAND_SZ, like all the others were. This is obviously why the installer couldn't find the folder path (why the firetruck it needs to know the My Pictures folder when I'm trying to install Eclipse is beyond me). So, I delete the "My Pictures" key, and add a new REG_EXPAND_SZ key with the same name and value. Installer works fine, now that it can properly handle the expandable string and I chalk this up to "silly Windows". Fast forward to today. Once again, I'm installing something (BEA's WebLogic), which happens to use the same install program. Once again, same error message. I go check the registry, and once again, the "My Pictures" entry is a REG_SZ, and *not* a REG_EXPAND_SZ. :wtf: wtf is this?? Does this mean that everytime i try to install something, i'm going to have to "reset" the registry entry?? :sigh: What program would decide that the registry entry should be a REG_SZ instead?? Luckily I'm on a XP box, because with 2k, you can't manually create a EXPAND_SZ. So I would have had to hard-code the %USERPROFILE% variable to the correct "C:\Documents and Settings\etc.." value. All I can do is chalk it up to "silly windows", eh? :sigh: [/rant/query] The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
OT: I think 2K has regedt32, which is super-Windows-3.1-fugly but has all the options like making REG_EXPAND_SZs. --Mike-- Ericahist | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | Homepage | RightClick-Encrypt | 1ClickPicGrabber "That probably would've sounded more commanding if I wasn't wearing my yummy sushi pajamas." -- Buffy
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[rant/query] I wonder if anyone else has had this problem: Yesterday, I was trying to install Eclipse, but I keep getting this error box popping up saying "Error: Cannot find network path: %USERPROFILE%\My Documents\My Pictures". I'm thinking, wtf? So I ask around a bit; no one has any idea what drugs I'm apparently on. :sigh: Start doing some investigating into the registry, I notice that under "User Shell Folders", it has a list of all my "special folders" (old news, eh?). But, what was interesting was that the "My Pictures" entry was a REG_SZ, and NOT a REG_EXPAND_SZ, like all the others were. This is obviously why the installer couldn't find the folder path (why the firetruck it needs to know the My Pictures folder when I'm trying to install Eclipse is beyond me). So, I delete the "My Pictures" key, and add a new REG_EXPAND_SZ key with the same name and value. Installer works fine, now that it can properly handle the expandable string and I chalk this up to "silly Windows". Fast forward to today. Once again, I'm installing something (BEA's WebLogic), which happens to use the same install program. Once again, same error message. I go check the registry, and once again, the "My Pictures" entry is a REG_SZ, and *not* a REG_EXPAND_SZ. :wtf: wtf is this?? Does this mean that everytime i try to install something, i'm going to have to "reset" the registry entry?? :sigh: What program would decide that the registry entry should be a REG_SZ instead?? Luckily I'm on a XP box, because with 2k, you can't manually create a EXPAND_SZ. So I would have had to hard-code the %USERPROFILE% variable to the correct "C:\Documents and Settings\etc.." value. All I can do is chalk it up to "silly windows", eh? :sigh: [/rant/query] The kindest thing you can do for a stupid person, and for the gene pool, is to let him expire of his own dumb choices. [Roger Wright on stupid people] We're like private member functions [John Theal on R&D] We're figuring out the parent thing as we go though. Kinda like setting up Linux for the first time ya' know... [Nitron]
Atlantys wrote: I wonder if anyone else has had this problem: No me. Sounds like it sucked bad though!
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