Broken Updater


Master-Blade

 

Posted

I was playing ok for a bit early this morning before the Server's maintenance cycle. A few hours after the maintenance cycle, I tried logging back in. The Updater downloaded something and then tried to apply it and could not. This is the error I get:

Updater-File Error

checksum failed on C:\Program Files\CityOfHeroes.exe
Click ok to do full checksum of all files.

You may be out of disk space or you may be trying to install to a location where you have insufficient permissions.

So I click Okay and it starts downloading and when it is finished the same error pops up. My choices are either to click Okay and have the problem loop again, or quit which closes the Updater.

Now, I know the game should have plenty of room to update as my drive is only a quarter full at best, and it should have all the permissions it needs, and it was working just fine a few hours ago. I am a bit frustrated by the new forums and the Community and Dev Digests aren't working yet, so I don't know if this is just me or if this is a known issue everyone is experiencing.


 

Posted

Try simply deleting Coh.checksum and try it again.

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The permissions issue sometimes results from the file trying to update itself while it's being run. Open your task manager and make sure there are no remnant copies of cityofheroes.exe still running in the background. Copy the updater to the desktop and run it from there, and try again.


 

Posted

Deleting the coh.checksum worked. Thanks