Since I work at an educational institution (allegedly), I've got access to the MSDN Alliance website which allows me to download MacroShaft products for free. After getting my old laptop up & running, it was time to grab the bloated 3 & a half gig .iso that is Visual Studio 2008.
Five fucking hours later, the download finishes, & the downloader app start to unpack the .iso, presumably in my download folder. The unpack job finishes & I go to look in the folder. No .iso there. Windows search also says it's not there or anywhere else on my hard disk. I manually looked through the directory -- nothing. WTF did I just spend five hours downloading? Figured at worst I could rerun the app & download another one. Nope. "You have reached your download limit."
If you're reading this, MacroShaft, THIS is why people pirate your software. Fuck you. If the installer says it's in a folder, it goddamned well better be there. Fuck you & fuck your licenses.
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When I dl MSDN stuff, I just ISOs directly, not sure what you mean by the downloader app "unpacking" the iso. The downloader app just downloads whatever.
If you download a different file, it should default to whatever directory your downloaded the last app.
For 2008, I assume you got either:
en_visual_studio_2008_professional_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-26326.iso
or
en_visual_studio_team_system_2008_team_suite_x86_dvd_X14-26461.iso
(in case file names help)
If you download a different file, it should default to whatever directory your downloaded the last app.
For 2008, I assume you got either:
en_visual_studio_2008_professional_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-26326.iso
or
en_visual_studio_team_system_2008_team_suite_x86_dvd_X14-26461.iso
(in case file names help)
It's not me, it's someone else.
When I click the link, I get a downloader app (navy blue circle w\ a lightning bolt thru it). That downloads & unpacks it to a directory I pick.
Downloading & unpacking finished. Iso wasn't there. The downloader was positively convinced it was in c:\downloads. Explorer & Windows Search disagreed. The search was expanded to my entire hard disk. Nothing. Problem appears to have been solved, though. I found an end-run around it.
Downloading & unpacking finished. Iso wasn't there. The downloader was positively convinced it was in c:\downloads. Explorer & Windows Search disagreed. The search was expanded to my entire hard disk. Nothing. Problem appears to have been solved, though. I found an end-run around it.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
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Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
