Nightly dt build: Do not have write access to create a one of the user directories during install

Software darktable
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Tried to install darktable-5.5.0+755.g2fd7538c75-win64.exe.

Tried to start it with this:

“C:\Program Files\darktable\bin\darktable.exe” --configdir “C:\Users\Bill Martz\AppData\Local\darktable\” --library :memory:

and received this error message

you do not have write access to create one of the user directories:
C\Program Files\darktable"C:\users\Bill

please fix this and then run darktable again.

C:\Users\Bill Martz\AppData\Local\darktable\ already exists.

Any help?

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You have had this before…I think its the space in your username… I should know the correction… normally you would use an underscore or something in your user name to avoid the issue with the space. Usually its not a good idea in Windows at least to have a space in your username or you will run in to this from time to time…

Maybe try this…

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I tried:

“C:\Program Files\darktable\bin\darktable.exe” --configdir %LocalAppData%\darktable\ –library :memory:

and got the same error.

I thought the quote marks around “C:\Users\Bill Martz\AppData\Local\darktable\” took care of the problem. I have been using this for a couple years.

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I think you still need quotes also around the path… and it may be a typo but should be --library not -library

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I fixed it by moving config to a folder directly under C:

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