LabVIEW 2020 Community Edition Installation Error

[jimu20]

When I attempt to install the LabVIEW 2020 Community Edition I get Error '3' occurred while trying to copy the file 'C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\7zOC554E626\bin\nipkg.ini' to 'C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\nipkg_preinstall-b77e-b230-1b2e-4989\nipkg.ini'. Error details: The system cannot find the path specified. Indeed, there is no such .ini file at the location from which the copy is being attempted. What do I need to do to solve this problem?

[altenbach]

• Is your disk very full?
• How big is the ...\AppData\Local\Temp folder?
• Do you run any unusual antivirus or security software?
• Where did you download the community edition from?
• What is your OS version?
• Did you scan the HD for errors?
• How about a disk cleanup?
• What kind of privileges do you have?

[jimu20]

Thank you for offering to help. Here are the answers to your questions:

• Is your disk very full? no, 375 GB available
• How big is the ...\AppData\Local\Temp folder? 694 MB
• Do you run any unusual antivirus or security software? No, I have recently successfully installed LabVIEW 2019 with trial license (that has now expired)
• Where did you download the community edition from? https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview/select-edition/labview-community-edition.html
• What is your OS version? 10 Pro
• Did you scan the HD for errors? Yes
• How about a disk cleanup? Yes
• What kind of privileges do you have? Administrator

[altenbach · Accepted solution]

Well, I am almost out of ideas....

• The distribution is an ISO file. Do you have any third party disk burning software that opens iso files by default (instead of windows explorer)?
• You could try extracting the ISO to a folder (e.g. using 7zip) and run the installer from there. Not sure if it would make a difference.
• How big is the iso file? Are you sure it downloaded completely?

[jimu20]

• You could try extracting the ISO to a folder (e.g. using 7zip) and run the installer from there. Not sure if it would make a difference.

This worked. I now realize that when I selected the ISO file it was opening in 7zip and I was trying to run install.exe from there before extracting the contents. Once I extracted the contents and ran from the extracted location it worked.

Thank you!

[billko]

I used software that mounts an ISO image as a virtual CD/DVD image and that worked fine.

[altenbach]

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@billko wrote:

I used software that mounts an ISO image as a virtual CD/DVD image and that worked fine.

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Windows 10 mounts ISOs automatically when double-clicked. No software needed. (Of course if certain third party CD burning software is installed, it might squat on this feature, potentially breaking other things. :() 

[billko]

I haven't upgraded to Windows 10.  (At home.)

[altenbach]

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@billko wrote:

I haven't upgraded to Windows 10.  (At home.)

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Yes, I remember these times. 😉