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You might want to read my post from April 9th here:
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Douglas Lauritsen, Autodesk Product Support
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@harlan_brumm wrote:
Hello,
I was going to propose a pretty complex workaround for this today. However, thinking about this more, there is a much better way to download and create a installation that can be installed everywhere and includes all the cab content files that are typically downloaded during the installation process, after the EXE has been extracted to the C:\Autodesk\ folder.
Drum roll if you will :)...
I used this excellent method to get the CAB files locally when we were testing Revit Structure 2011. At that time I was doing straight installs for the users.
Later on I created a network deployment from the now-modified RevitInstall.ini setup, which was good at the time because it copied all the CAB files from my hard drive and not the Internet. The content location I specified in the deployment was the standard" C:\Documents & Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\RST2011" location.
The deployment installs the program and service pack 1 correctly.
BUT it does not copy any content from the deployment folders .\ContentENU and .\ContentAll onto the end user computer. The template file the deployment sets up is called ".rte" Because there's no content in the RST2011 folder and definitely no template file called ".rte" I get template and path errors when starting up Revit Structure 2011.
I've checked the install log and found nothing that stands out. I tried modifying the RevitInstall.ini on the deployment folder by changing URL=. back to the standard URL=http://revit.downloads.autodesk.com/download/2011RST. That did nothing at all.
Does anyone know why the deployment fails to copy the content to the end user computer from the deployment folders?
Thanks
I think I found the problem - always happens after posting questions!
I checked the Content.rcl files and they are both missing all the CAB info that appears below the [silentTargets] section.
I think this is the reason why no content is being copied. Won't be able to test until I'm at work tomorrow.
I have attached the RST 2010 and RST2011 versions so you can see what I mean.
Hi Mike,
I have encountered this issue with my Revit Architecture deployments. Did you find a solution other than manually decompressing the files into the default directories listed in the content.rcl folder? I would much rather go with something built into an installer or Revit itself.
I seem to remember that I had some funky installations in Revit 2010 where I did something in Revit that ran that template/library install window that you normally see at the end of the installation. Unfortunately I can't find my notes and don't remember what I did to get that dialog.
Thanks,
Mike R.
Hi, sorry for the really late reply!
In the end I recreated my deployment from scratch again, using the original ini file. And the problem went away.
Trap for young players, having a modified ini file for local installs and then using it to create a deployment from, doesn't work.
Cheers
Mike
Another problem with content download. I've installed 5 copies of Revit 2011, and each time I get a message for something like "Imperial Templates" that the data is invalid, and it doesn't install. Then it tries to install the same content when you install the service pack, and it fails again. Then you open the program for the first time, and it fails to install again, each time something wrong with the data being downloaded, and only the same "cabs". Why does this download content uniformly get corrupted with 3 different attempts on 5 different installs...on 64-bit machines of Windows 7 with 8GB RAM? (I even downloaded the program TWICE from the subscription page, thinking that my install download was corrupted.)
And similarly to a previous question, why don't you offer a way to download this content ONCE, instead of me having to do it 16 times for 16 machines? (Just cutting corners, and screwing your customers.)