Beta Download problems

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I have the Stardock Central tool and have been using it for all of my GC updates for years. However, yesterday when I went to download GCII Beta Version 0.81a.015 I keep getting an download error about 2 files into it. Is anyone else having this issue?

Joel
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Yes, it's happened to me one or two times with previous upgrades. It seems that, for mysterious reasons (at least, to me), after the download, the installation procedure expects to find those files, but they have been deleted (I found one of them in my recycle bin). The only workaround I've found is to unistall GCII and Stardock Central and reinstall them (very annoying)
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Well as the good reverend always says:

It can only get better when beta... er gamma is over!

W/R
Suralle
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Amen brother Straykat.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I just now tried it and I get the same problem. Here is the log. I don't quite understand it...


-- [Application] ----------------------------------------------------
Name: Stardock Central
Path: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral
Version: 2.20.359, build: 103

-- [System Information] ---------------------------------------------
Platform: Microsoft Windows Windows XP, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Display: ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600 Series
Driver Version: 6.14.10.6546
System Dir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Time / Date: 17:51:31 -- Saturday, January 28, 2006

-- [Installing] -----------------------------------------------------
Server: http://sdcentral2.stardock.com
Server Dir: public
Network Id: drengin
Name: Galactic Civilizations II
App Id: gc2
Installed: False
Version: 0.81a.015
Type: production
Reg Key: GalCiv2
Install Dir: C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2
Exe: galciv2.exe
Last Updated: 01/25/2006

-- [Account] --------------------------------------------------------
First Name: Joel
Last Name: Halfwassen
Email: joel@interserv.com

-- [Installation] ---------------------------------------------------
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2.xml 1
Load: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2.xml 1
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\gc2.sdc 0 (attempt: 1, HTML code was detected within the download, code: -18)
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\gc2.sdc 0 (attempt: 2, HTML code was detected within the download, code: -18)
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\temp\gc2.sdc 0 (attempt: 3, HTML code was detected within the download, code: -18)
Result: Installation failed (0)
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I tried it on my desktop too and this is what I got...


-- [Application] ----------------------------------------------------
Name: Stardock Central
Path: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral
Version: 2.24[b].169, build: 112

-- [System Information] ---------------------------------------------
Platform: Microsoft Windows Windows XP, 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Display: NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT
Driver Version: 4.5.2.3
System Dir: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Time / Date: 18:04:09 -- Saturday, January 28, 2006

-- [Installing] -----------------------------------------------------
Server: http://sdcentral2.stardock.com
Server Dir: public
Network Id: drengin
Name: Galactic Civilizations II
App Id: gc2
Installed: False
Version: 0.81a.015
Type: production
Reg Key: GalCiv2
Install Dir: C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2
Exe: galciv2.exe
Last Updated: 01/25/2006

-- [Account] --------------------------------------------------------
First Name: Joel
Last Name: Halfwassen
Email: joel@interserv.com

-- [Installation] ---------------------------------------------------
Download: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2.xml 1
Load: C:\Program Files\Stardock\SDCentral\data\public\gc2\production\gc2.xml 1
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\JOELHA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\gc2.sdc 0 (attempt: 1, HTML code was detected within the download, code: -18)
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\JOELHA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\gc2.sdc 0 (attempt: 2, HTML code was detected within the download, code: -18)
Download: C:\DOCUME~1\JOELHA~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\sdcentral\gc2.sdc 0 (attempt: 3, HTML code was detected within the download, code: -18)
Result: Installation failed (0)