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Blender installs to wrong directory
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I installed blender 2.56 64bit and it installed to "C:\Users\David\Blender Foundation\Blender".
I tried to change it to "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender" but it gives an error: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=7807
Windows 7 pro 64bit.
Blender 64bit installer official release.

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• David Sheftick (john316) edited a custom field.Jan 3 2011, 3:06 AM
Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) added a comment.Jan 3 2011, 8:22 AM

Installing to the user dir is intentional so dont think this is a bug.
assigning to Nathan.

Thomas Dinges (dingto) added a comment.Jan 4 2011, 11:01 AM

Maybe you have no rights to write to that directory?

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) added a comment.Jan 4 2011, 12:56 PM

Indeed, this is intentional: http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/2010-December/033106.html

The error most likely comes from the fact that as a non-admin user you won't have write access to the directory. Otherwise you should be able to write to any directory you have write access to.

Nathan Letwory (jesterking) changed the task status from Unknown Status to Archived.Jan 4 2011, 12:56 PM