Cant update

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treos99 wrote:

thread title seems fitting enough. anyway, i think the latest hotfix (released a couple minutes ago) has broken something as the autopatcher goes crazy when i try updating now.

first the progress and download speed numbers go back and forth for some reason then it dies giving the following error message:

Error: Failed writing recieved data to disk/application while downloading
http//patch202.pathofexile.com:8095/patch/1.1.1.2/PathOfExile.exe

Are you running as administrator by right-clicking and selecting "Run as Administrator" on the PathOfExile.exe in the Path of Exile folder?

You can also just save this link into the Path of Exile folder over top of the current one (the file from the error).

In the future, please create your own thread rather than attaching a new problem to a current one.

You shouldn't revive old threads. If you have issues, you should create your own thread. The reason for this is because old threads become "outdated" in their information, and the problem at the time the thread was created is not necessarily the same problem that is happening now.

As for your actual issue, if you have a permissions issue, you need to give yourself proper permissions to the things that need access. This is a common mistake people make assuming that just because their account is an "administrator" that it is ACTUALLY an administrator having full access. For as long as UAC is enabled, even the "administrator" account does not have elevated permissions unless they run the application under the "administrator" context. IE: you need to right-click on the application and select "Run as Administrator" for it to have elevated permissions. This is most common for things inside of C:\Program Files\ as that is a HEAVILY protected folder.

So just because you are the only account and it says you are an administrator, as long as UAC is enabled, things don't RUN as administrator unless you tell them to, or they ask the OS to run as administrator (you get that little modal popup window that asks if you're sure you want to run something as admin).

This is similar to things like Linux where you have to run 'sudo' on a command for it to be run as administrator. This is to protect your computer from yourself. It was a method introduced to prevent people from getting themselves seriously infected by a virus because it supposedly puts an additional dialog in front of them to ensure they WANT to do that (which most people blindly click yes to).

Putting PoE inside of its own C:\Path of Exile\ folder should help as long as you right-clicked the PoE folder, and gone to the Security tab and ensured that you are both Owner and have Full Access to it. The other option is just to always launch Path of Exile as Admin through the right-click and selection of "Run as Administrator".

Good luck.