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Why Can't Revit Updates install without the Original Installer Files?

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nharburger
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Why Can't Revit Updates install without the Original Installer Files?

it seems crazy that Revit (and other autodesk software) requires you to keep the original installation files on your computer in order to be able to run updates. If you have multiple versions of software, you could be forced to keep will over 100GB of old installation files on your hard drive.
By default - when we deploy to a bunch of machines, the installation files get placed in a temp folder that gets deleted as part of the installation process... making deployments of updates a complete nightmare, as everyone ends up getting something along the lines of this:

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and until they path to the proper installer file, they can't proceed.
No other software i have used have ever required this. I don't understand why Autodesk can't include any/all relevant installers the update may need access to and work it into he update.

Does anyone know why this is?

 

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RobDraw
als Antwort auf: nharburger

This question is much better suited in the Installation and Licensing forum.


Rob

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nharburger
als Antwort auf: RobDraw

fair enough - i didn't know that forum existed. i just reposted over there.

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barthbradley
als Antwort auf: nharburger

Autodesk Desktop App

 

https://www.autodesk.com/desktop-app

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ennujozlagam
als Antwort auf: nharburger

maybe this article helps. thanks





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nharburger
als Antwort auf: barthbradley

If you are implying i just have everyone run the update themselves via the Desktop App, that won't work. User profiles at our firm do not have admin permissions, and therefore cannot install anything on their own without being given temporary admin credentials. Architecture firms have been getting targeted by phishing and ransomware at an alarming rate. These precautions protect our firm and all our clients. So deploying the software from a secure single server with admin credentials is the only way we can do this, short of going onto each person's machine, using their temp admin credentials to log in and run the update - which is obviously not time effective.
For now - I just wrote a dumb batch file to temporarily transfer the 40+GB of installer files from a single network source onto the users' C:\Autodesk location before running the update (and then deleting the installer data when the update completes). This takes a lot longer for each update to run, given all the data transfer... but the success rate bumped up to about 80%, and was able to be done over night...
But that's sort of my point... i have virtually no coding experience, but was able to add a couple steps to the the installation to make it more likely to succeed... i have no doubt that professional programmers should be able to make something faster/more elegant that what i did and just package it as part of the actual update to avoid this issue in the first place.
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nharburger
als Antwort auf: ennujozlagam

Yes - I am aware of that solution.. the issue is that there is no way to apply that solution en mass across an entire firm. and again... why make an update to an already installed program that requires the original "installer" data in the first place?

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