Bug report #22095
Installer does not honour drive selection nor provides warnings on C drive space when C drive is not the chosen drive
| Status: | Open | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: |  Jürgen Fischer | ||
| Category: | Windows Package | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | 3.6.2 | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Windows 8.1 | Easy fix?: | No |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 29908 |
Description
Hello,
I have 1.5gb on my C drive (yes, it is small, it's a SSD) and chose to install QGIS wholly on my E drive.
After a minute of installing, my computer crashed some applications, then terminated the install process and I found the cause was QGIS had dump over 1Gb of data on my C drive.
There really is no need to do this. When you select to install on a specific drive, it should do that.
Regardless, even if it needs to use C drive temporarily or permanently, it should be doing a disk size check to say whether it can install, rather than just crashing.
Now, of course, I need to figure out where all these files have been dumped because the installer has closed down as well.
thanks.