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David Rocha
David Rocha

Reputation: 549

Atom installation error on Windows 10

I was getting this error when trying to install Atom using the installer.

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I tried to run as Administrator but ever having the same error. So I opened the Setup Log and found this line in many places of the log:

Failed to load local releases, starting from scratch: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Users\david\AppData\Local\slack\packages\RELEASES'.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 18149

Answers (10)

Razor_programer
Razor_programer

Reputation: 1

To resolve this problem, I simply tried to change the AppData folder properties, unchecking the Attribute "Read-Only" and applying to subfolders.

After that, I could install the application and everything is working well.

This worked for me on Windows 11 home version.

Hope this helps

Upvotes: 0

Nesar
Nesar

Reputation: 5664

This is a permission related issue. Could be you don't have permission to write, in that case run as Administrator.

Right Click on the installer and select Run As Administrator.

If you still have the issue, disable your antivirus, defender or whatever you have to protect your PC from threats. Once Installed Enable it BACK

Upvotes: 2

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 1

This was what worked for me (Windows 11):

Go to properties>compatability on the installation file. Run the troubleshooter for compatibility, and it shoul provide a solution, wait, and if it works, select that it did so, and you’re all done.

Upvotes: 0

NERDGHOST
NERDGHOST

Reputation: 31

What worked for me was closing Slack and terminating any of it's processes in Task Manager.

Upvotes: 0

jatin malhotra
jatin malhotra

Reputation: 1

first uninstall or disable the antivirus. In my case Guardian net secure was handling all the things of windows firewall. so i was not able to allow the app through windows firewall. therefore, it is necessary to uninstall these. then restart your laptop. after restarting open control panel. go to windows firewall. on left top you will see allow an app or feature through windows firewall . click on it. dialog box appears. click on change settings. at bottom click allow another app. then browse the downloaded file atom.exe. then install it

Upvotes: 0

rogerionc
rogerionc

Reputation: 1

I managed to install by finding an older version.

Upvotes: -1

Kousik
Kousik

Reputation: 1

You can try this:

  1. open control panel
  2. Windows firewall
  3. click allow an app or feature through windows firewall
  4. In that at right bottom click allow another app
  5. Browse the downloaded atom.exe file and click open and click ok

Upvotes: 0

Kushal Jain
Kushal Jain

Reputation: 3186

If you have anti-virus installed on your system. Please disable it and try it once. Hope this will work for you because this worked for me like a charm.

One more thing you can check that your windows update service is also running. You check it out in Task Manager ->Here is the image of windows service is running

So do this thing and check it out.

Upvotes: 2

user2979871
user2979871

Reputation: 11

if you have Dropbox opened, close it.

Upvotes: 1

David Rocha
David Rocha

Reputation: 549

To resolve this problem, I simply tried to change the AppData folder properties, unchecking the Attribute "Read-Only" and applying to subfolders.

After that, I could install the application and everything is working well.

I don't know whether what I did was the best solution, but it fixed my problem :)

Hope this help someone

Upvotes: 3

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