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1152: Error extracting to the temporary location

I had issue running the Yamaha USB driver installer part of um3141x64.zip. Running the setup.exe showed dialog with the message:

1152: Error extracting to the temporary location

I used Sysintermals Procmon to check what failed but that didn't reveal the problem. My current TEMP folder points to the folder S:\.tmp on a ReFS partition. After temporarily creating a c:\tmp, set TEMP and TMP environment variables to that value the setup.exe ran without any issues. That means the installer could:

  1. Required C: drive
  2. Didn't like the period character in the path
  3. Isn't working with ReFS partitions

I did not do any further testing but I suspect its (2).

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