Autodesk Revit says "Out of disk space" when installing, however there's space

[Sæmorr]

All autodesk folders in my C: drive are NTFS Junction Points to its respective folder inside another drive with plenty of space. The problem is that Revit doesn't know that (because the operation is transparent to the filesystem) so it won't allow me to install (specially because of "Autodesk Revit Content Libraries 2016") that seem to be forced to install on C:. I would like a method or parameter to the installer to at least use bruteforce and allow me to perform the install even regardless of the notified free space. PLEASE help me on this, it's a stupid limitation that needs to be overcomed as soon as possible. My C: drive is soldered to the motherboard and can't increase capacity, my have plenty on a second hard drive!

[matthew.d]

Hi @Sæmorr,

Sorry to hear about the issue. Give the solution in this post a try to resolve an out of disk error.

[Sæmorr · Accepted solution]

Finally solved it editing the setup.ini before install. This is the procedure thanks to @Anonymous here:

Can't Install on a non-bootable Hard drive

- Previously decompress the iso file to a folder so you can edit files inside.

1) backup setup.ini
2) delete from setup.ini the lines that match or start with:
DISKCOST_FUNC=BSDGetDiskCost
DISKCOST_SOURCE=
3) modify the lines DISKCOST=3000000 or similar to DISKCOST=30
4) install and change the install disk to d:, e: or the disk that you have enought space, or
5) if you are using NTFS Junction Points or symbolic links with MKLINK (command prompt utility) you can choose C: anyway if the folders are redirected to another drive
5) when installing check for drive C free space constantly and cancel install if doesn't work

Check here how to install software on a different drive physically but make the program believe that it's being installed on C, using the MKLINK command:

How to move all Autodesk folders to a different drive?

Complete Guide to Symbolic Links (symlinks) on Windows or Linux

Junction Link Magic

[Sæmorr]

"Official" way to free up disk space (not very useful):

Out of disk space during installation to another disk drive