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Originally Posted by Marco77
@BetterRed; Sorry for the late reply. After further investigation, it is not a Calibre problem.
The reason is my browser downloads go into a location which is a special type of reparse point known as "Dos Devices".
The installer cannot be run from there, and the 'correct' way is to either move the installer away, or run the 'real' path on the original location, avoiding any sort of symlink etc. redirection.
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No worries always better late then never.
Dos Devices reparse points are unfamiliar to me, I only know about device mount points, junctions, and symbolic links.
Interestingly, my %USERHOME%\Downloads folder, which has separate subdirectories for different data types (ebooks, music, software etc), has a symlink in the root of C:. I access all downloads from the symlink, including running all software installs (.exe, msi, etc). I've never had a problem doing that, even when I used a Junction on XP and NT5 before that.
perhaps Dos Devices is the name of a Device Mount Point, if so why use a Mount Point rather than a Junction or Symlink.
BR