Installation fails on exFAT formatted hard drives (no symlink support)

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To me it looks like some symlink operations from node.js fail on that drive, which may be unrelated to Needle Engine at all.
To verify could you try creating a project on a different harddrive and see if that works?

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Hi, the F drive is my Samsung SSD. I tried to create the project on a different harddrive, thanks for following up on this~👧

by user 1023211627593613382

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Do you happen to know the formatting of it? (e.g. NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, 
)

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I know it can be used on both win and mac,

by user 1023211627593613382

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OK. Same result on a different harddrive? Have you tested already?

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OMG It works!!! I just create a new project on E harddrive:TrippyBlob: :blobaww: :blobaww: :blobaww: :blobaww:

by user 1023211627593613382

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Cool! That’s good to hear :slightly_smiling_face:

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So the project can’t be built on a removable drive? I don’t understand:TrippyBlob:

by user 1023211627593613382

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Could you do the following so we have some more info about it:

  1. Open “System Information” (either windows key and type that or enter “msinfo32” in cmd)
  2. Select Components > Storage > Drives
  3. Select all (Ctrl + A) on the right side of the screen and copy that (Ctrl + C) and paste here (Ctrl + V)
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Will look something like this, ideally you send the entire right side as text here as mentioned above

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Generally it does. But we had some reports about specific types of hard drives with specific folder names and/or formatting not being able to create symlinks - which isn’t something we do, it’s node.js that does that. So the info I requested above would really help us to understand this better

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Drive C.
Description Local fixed disk
Compression No
File system NTFS
Size 344.59 GB (369,996,664,832 bytes)
Free space 95.43 GB (102,466,912,256 bytes)
Volume name OS
Volume Serial Number A2C7B2D9

Drive D.
Description Local fixed disk
Compressed No
File system NTFS
Size 292.97 GB (314,571,747,328 bytes)
Free space 111.65 GB (119,888,482,304 bytes)
Volume name Newly added volume
Volume Serial Number C65B0897

Drive E.
Description Local fixed disk
Compressed No
File system NTFS
Size 292.97 GB (314,571,747,328 bytes)
Free space 229.21 GB (246,112,960,512 bytes)
Volume name Newly added volume
Volume Serial Number 54C48A74

Drive F.
Description Local fixed disk
Compressed No
File system exFAT
Size 1.82 TB (2,000,333,307,904 bytes)
Free space 1.42 TB (1,564,022,800,384 bytes)
Volume name SnowSPBOWL
Volume Serial Number 0E6738CF

by user 1023211627593613382

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I’m sorry this is a translation, does it make sense?

by user 1023211627593613382

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Thanks a lot! Perfect :ok_hand:
The “File system” part is what is special, your F: drive is formatted as exFAT, I believe we had issues with that in the past

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Just verified, so exFAT doesn’t support symlinks
 @Marcel_Wiessler1 :cactus: didn’t we have a similar issue and added a warning somewhere? At least I remember that we had a similar case in the past

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@snowfallsout Thanks a lot for your patience and for following through with the extra requests above :pray:

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Changed the channel name: Installation fails on exFAT formatted hard drives (no symlink support)

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You’re welcome, I should be thanking you!!!

by user 1023211627593613382

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Yes we had. I thought we also added a check to the exporter but maybe i remember that incorrectly or it is not yet loud enough. Will check later.

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Improved the FAT32 check for the next update