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obscure error when installing without administrative privileges on Windows #67

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ghost opened this issue Mar 29, 2021 · 0 comments
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ghost commented Mar 29, 2021

the installer shows an obscure error message when administrator privileges are required

Exception: E:\Minecraft\versions
- sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:83)
- sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:97)
- sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:102)
- sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(WindowsFileSystemProvider.java:504)
- java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:674)
- java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:781)
- java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:767)
- net.fabricmc.installer.client.ClientInstaller.install(ClientInstaller.java:38)
- net.fabricmc.installer.client.ClientHandler.lambda$install$1(ClientHandler.java:56)
- net.fabricmc.installer.client.ClientHandler$$Lambda$40/1951182557.run(Unknown Source)
- java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

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maybe add a suggestion to run as administrator

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