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#15074 Kickstart: Could not open ... for writing

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 18 February 2013 09:42 CST

lausianne

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Sure. Everything.
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Sure. All of them.
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Of course.
Joomla! version: 2.5.8
PHP version: 5.3.4
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: localhost (XAMPP)
Akeeba Backup version: 3.6.12

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Link: http://www.kummer.ch/Akeeba Backup Debug Log.txt


Description of my issue:

Kickstart on local PC (Windows 7):

Could not open C:/www/kummer.ch/administrator/components/com_k2store/backup/k2store_db_backup_01.11.2012_13:48:27_file_1351774107.sql for writing.

Happens near the end of the extraction. I have found old tickets on this with suggestions and the FAQ item. Didn't help. I made the security setting (all for everyone), although I don't see how that could be an issue, since the directories are only created at extraction.

The file that causes the message is only 300MB, I've got 16GB free. 

Now, looking at the filename, it doesn't exactly look like Windows standard ... so I assume that's the problem. I don't need that file anyway. But how can I remove it from the archive? I could extract the whole archive, then delete that file and compress again. But I have yet to find a way to create a .jpa on windows ...

If Kickstart simply ignored that error, that'd be ideal. And indeed, I eventually tried the checkbox in the first Kickstart form ("Ignore most errors"). It worked! Perhaps you could mention this in the FAQ? Would have saved me a bit of time.

 

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

Ah, darn, you are right! I mention that for the eXtract Wizard but not for Kickstart. In fact I added this option to Kickstart after seeing it does work very well on similar cases in eXtract Wizard. Thank you for the heads up, I will update the documentation!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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