• .Exe being deleted and unable to be reinstalled
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So this issue has actually been going on for about 2 weeks now but it's starting to get on my nerves. Recently I started playing FFXIV again and downloaded a program (again) called ACT. What ACT does is it allows you to parse your dps and the dps of others in your party and the like. Now the issue is that there will be times where ACT will crash. That's fine I can just restart the program. The problem is when I try to open the program back up with the shortcut it says it can't find the .exe file. ??? Sure enough I check the folder and the AdvancedCombatTracker.exe file is gone from the folder. Well I'll just reinstall the program I suppose... except that doesn't work. When I try to reinstall the program to the same location I get an error saying "Error opening file for writing" (so in this case I had installed ACT to ProgramFiles), I can install it to a different location such as Documents, Videos, Pictures, etc. etc. and that'll band-aid the problem until the program "crashes" (at this point I feel like the crashing isn't the program's fault but who knows) again. If it does the .exe will be deleted again and I'll have the same issue all over again. I've done this 4 times already and it's starting to become an annoyance. Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do to remedy the issue of not being able to reinstall it to the same location? I've looked through google but I can't find anything similar to my issue. [b]EDIT[/b] SOLVED. Fucking Avast was marking it as a virus.
maybe try making it read only. right click -> properties. you still might have to disable that when you update tho
Do you have any AV softwares on? It might be getting flagged as malicious and deleted.
It just did it 2 more times within the span of me posting this and me reinstalling it. [editline]3rd July 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=thelurker1234;52427095]maybe try making it read only. right click -> properties. you still might have to disable that when you update tho[/QUOTE] I tried this and it didn't work, still deleted the .exe [editline]3rd July 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Zekkei;52427188]Do you have any AV softwares on? It might be getting flagged as malicious and deleted.[/QUOTE] I do have Avast but it's not saying anything, if it is Avast doing it it's not giving me any warnings. I never had this issue before with Avast and ACT way back when Win10 first came out and I had to reinstall the program nor when I had it for Win8.1 or Win7. I can say though I figured out that the crashing is coming from me fiddling with certain settings on the program but it's not much of a work around to dance around the issue.
with avast if you right click icon then virus chest you'll see all programs that have been flagged as virus's " i looked in mine and its flagged Gmod vrad.exe as suspicious, and i've never seen a warning for it
[QUOTE=taz0;52427239]with avast if you right click icon then virus chest you'll see all programs that have been flagged as virus's " i looked in mine and its flagged Gmod vrad.exe as suspicious, and i've never seen a warning for it[/QUOTE] Yep and there's the fucking culprit right there. Every single one of the .exe files that was deleted is in there. Is there a way I can flag something to NOT be considered a virus? Never mind there's a "Restore and add to exclusions" option.
[QUOTE=gbtygfvyg;52427243]Yep and there's the fucking culprit right there. Every single one of the .exe files that was deleted is in there. Is there a way I can flag something to NOT be considered a virus? Never mind there's a "Restore and add to exclusions" option.[/QUOTE] AV programs are pretty suspicious of .exe files. Usually the culprit if things go wrong with it.
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