Can't install Add-ons
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Can't install Add-ons
Hello, I can't install add-ons. It always says "A problem occured when trying to create files necessary to install this add-on." I've experienced this issue with both non-steam and steam version of the game (congrats for the Steam version btw
). Thank you for any help.

Re: Can't install Add-ons
I'm having the same issue
Re: Can't install Add-ons
Same problem here as well.
Re: Can't install Add-ons
Are you on windows10?
Maybe it's related to OneDrive. Get rid of that, maybe.
Maybe it's related to OneDrive. Get rid of that, maybe.
I like beavers.
Re: Can't install Add-ons
Thanks for the tip, I'm using Win 10 and there was some mysterious problem with my OneDrive not a long time ago (I wasn't able to upgrade it). I'll try to fix it and than disable it (now I can't even access my OneDrive
). Thanks again.

Re: Can't install Add-ons
So I unistalled OneDrive but no luck
Still can't install add-ons.

Re: Can't install Add-ons
Is your folder with wesnoth writable? (not read only? not admin protected?)
C:\Users\Admin\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14
maybe you installed it as admin account and now using some non-admin account?
These are just my noob ideas.. i'm not really sure if this can be the problem.. hopefuly some more advanced people here give you better advice...
Re: Can't install Add-ons
My Win10 puts addons to:
C:\Users\Zap-Zarap\Documents\MyGames\Wesnoth1.14\data\add-ons\...
No admin account
My installation process:
- download from sourceforge as user "Zap-Zarap" (non-admin)
- click (as Zap-Zarap) on the installer package
- now system asks me for admin password
- Wesnoth-stuff is installed in my User\Zap-Zarap\Documents thing.
C:\Users\Zap-Zarap\Documents\MyGames\Wesnoth1.14\data\add-ons\...
No admin account

My installation process:
- download from sourceforge as user "Zap-Zarap" (non-admin)
- click (as Zap-Zarap) on the installer package
- now system asks me for admin password
- Wesnoth-stuff is installed in my User\Zap-Zarap\Documents thing.
I like beavers.
Re: Can't install Add-ons
You need to include the required bug report info. viewtopic.php?t=25660
Re: Can't install Add-ons
Thanks, here's bug report info:
I've also attached the log file.
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The Battle for Wesnoth version 1.14.1 (918cdfc-Clean)
Running on Microsoft Windows 10 (10.0.17134)
Game paths
==========
Data dir: D:\Hry\Steam\steamapps\common\wesnoth
User config dir: C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14
User data dir: C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14
Saves dir: C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14\saves
Add-ons dir: C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14\data\add-ons
Cache dir: C:\Users\uživatel\Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.14\cache
Libraries
=========
Boost: 1.66
OpenSSL/libcrypto: 1.1.0f (runtime 1.1.0f)
Cairo: 1.10.2 (runtime 1.10.2)
Pango: 1.30.1 (runtime 1.30.1)
SDL: 2.0.8 (runtime 2.0.8)
SDL_image: 2.0.3 (runtime 2.0.3)
SDL_mixer: 2.0.2 (runtime 2.0.2)
SDL_ttf: 2.0.14 (runtime 2.0.14)
Features
========
Experimental OpenMP support: yes
JPG screenshots: yes
Lua console completion: yes
Legacy bidirectional rendering: no
Win32 notifications back-end: yes
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wesnoth-20180523-184405-14420.log
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Last edited by Pentarctagon on May 24th, 2018, 12:20 am, edited 1 time in total.
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