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>Trying to install SP5, InstallShield complains "decompression of %s failed.
>There may not be enough free space in the TEMP directory", there is plenty
>of space. The %s suggests perhaps something is wrong with a file name.
I had this problem too. It turned out my temp directory was full of
other junk. Clearing it out solved the problem.
>SP4 installed without problem. I'm new to XP and thought this may be
>connected with folder permissions so have tried to set \temp to allow other
>users to 'change' files (which seems to involve allowing network users to
>share it). Also tried to untick the 'Read-only' box, but it always reappears
>as sort of greyed-out (you can change it, but it doesn't stay changed). Any
>hints gratefully received.
I had also reset my TEMP and TMP paths. For the longest time I was
frustrated by this SP5 installation failure because I thought my
TEMP directories were empty! I have temp directories on all my disk
partitions, and even in some subdirectories. Then I checked the
actual path set in the TEMP variable and noticed I had it pointing
to a temp directory that was, indeed, full of stuff.
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