Hi John, thanks for your response.

Yes I was informed a while back that after I log in to the PG music website I can navigate to a page that allows me to download my BIAB 2016 files and install. I just found my reminder database notes and I was once again able to do that. However I am trying to avoid that download approach since it takes a long time and I successfully copied all the external USB hard drive files over to my computer's D drive without issue.

Without issue means I did it in single copy which left all the external USB drive files (of the root directory and of the sub-directories) exactly as they were set up. I can not access that external drive now so it is lucky I did the copy when I did. I ran BIAB successfully from that D drive folder for a year or so which seems to confirm that the copy went well.

I was rather surprised when I discovered that executing the setup.exe file from the directory within my D drive did not work. I was surprised because I have downloaded at least 100 softwares over the years and the setup.exe (or equivalent file) was able to install properly 99% of the time. My pattern for executing this process is pretty much always the same. I download to the download directory and install from there. If I like and decide to keep the software I move the zip file to a folder with a long descriptive name so I can find the zip file later. All of these are stored under a common folder so I can find them easily. Inevitably I have to eventually reformat and do these installs again and they work again. So the setup.exe files don't care where they are located. Having done some windows dos scripting and a lot of unix shell scripting I understand basically how they are able to find the install source files. How they find the target locations I don't know. I say this because I always have windows on the C drive but I can't assume everyone does and some of the setup.exe files may be able to handle this.

I am thinking I will email support. They can go directly to the programmer(s) involved and figure out the easiest way to get BIAB and Real band installed from my D drive. I certainly don't want to move those files to the route directory of the D drive (trying to simulate how it was located on that external USB drive) and make it a mess since I have other stuff on that D drive too.

John

Last edited by bowlesj; 11/28/19 11:55 AM.
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