The temp folder is on a drive...

[Steve Gould]

I'm sure this is so easy I'll be hitting myself when I learn the answer.

I am deploying my first Vista PC in our domain. I've never sat in front of
one before. Trying to install the first application, Acrobat Reader 8, is
failing with the following error message:

The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or inaccessible. Free up space on
the drive or verify that you have write permission on the Temp folder.


I am logged on as domain admin and the drive has about over 50GB of free
space.

What am I missing? If Windows need permission shouldn't it ask for admin
credentials?

 

[David B.]

Right click and run as admin or turn UAC back on if you turned it off,
common problem that has been posted here many, many times.

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[Craig]

Be sure to verify that the Domain Admins group is part of the local
Administrators group.
If that is in place, try logging in locally and see if this still happens...
then you'll know if it's a permissions issue.

Cheers
Craig

 

[Steve Gould]

Logging on as local admin no difference. Domain Admins are inside local
admin group. Logged in as local admin and used Run as Admin, no difference.


What is the location of the temp folder? Windows\Temp? Admin Group has full
permissions there.

 

[Steve Gould]

UAC is on.Run as Admin made no difference. Logged on as local admin after
enabling the account. No difference.

 

[LaRoux]

Frankly, it surprises me that a domain admin would have such simplistic
problem solving skills. I would recommend you not roll out Vista into your
domain, IMO you aren't ready for it.

Searching the Adobe site with the terms "Vista temp file full" instantly
brought up the following tech note for this very common issue:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333643

Good luck.

 

[Steve Gould]

Tried with UAC off, no difference.

Right click and run as admin or turn UAC back on if you turned it off,
common problem that has been posted here many, many times.

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[Steve Gould]

I tried Office 2007 and it installed just fine using Run as Admin.Acrobat,
however, won't install no matter what I try.

 

[Steve Gould]

An immediate Vista install was forced on us. The first machine has been up
for about 2 hours. Give me a break. I'm still figuring out how to run all of
our domain logon scripts w/o user intervention. Vista training for admins
won't be until mid year.

Think I'm going to put my foot down and demand we image the machines to XP
and hold out on Vista until we can get some people trained.

 

[LaRoux]

My guess would be unless you have a very vanilla environment, you will
almost certainly find other software that won't work correctly under Vista.
These will either require a work around, like Adobe Reader, or just flat
won't function. With some exception, the smaller the vendor, the more likely
you are to find that they don't have any capability to give you a functional
version to work on Vista.

Maybe you should squirrel this system away to do testing with and get
another one with XP for the user.

 

[Steve Gould]

I agree. Like all of our corporate fonts are true type. I'll have to see if
Vista can mbe made to accept TTF fonts or not. Actually I kind of hope it
won't. Some departments demand the weirdest fonts.

Actually I think I'll ghost the drive for safe keeping and load XP. After
showing the boss what I'm running into he is beginning to lean towards
holding off until we can get some training and figure out all the changes
needed to incorporate Vista.

 

[Joe Madsen]

I have found the answer posted at the Adobe web site. It is to large to
post here. Go to Adobe.com /support and search for "adobe reader 8 AND
Vista"
And I think you will find the answer to your problem.

Hope it helps.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:26:38 -0700, "Steve Gould"

I agree. Like all of our corporate fonts are true type. I'll have to see if
Vista can mbe made to accept TTF fonts or not.

I think it does...

Actually I think I'll ghost the drive for safe keeping and load XP.

If you use ImageX from WinPE 2.0, you'd have an image that is less
bound to that particular PC, so I'd go that route instead of (or as
well as) a raw partition image.

I had no drama with Acrobat Reader 8 on Vista32 RTM Home Basic, with
UAC left in default (on) mode. That's without domain access, tho.

That's what I'd do. Not being Vista-ready may cost more in terms of
license duplication and the impact of switching later, but if you
aren't ready, you aren't ready.

The time to have done testing would have been between RTM in November
2006 and consumer availability in January/February 2007; any earlier,
and you may have been ambushed by late-beta changes, as I suspect is
what has happened to software developers who need more "lead time".

 

[drosselott]

I re-enabled UAC, it still didn't work for me. So, I clicked
properties on the installer, went to the compatibility tab and chose
to run the installer from compatibility mode for Windows XP SP2. That
seemed to do the trick.
Hope this helps someone.