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#1 2012-04-22 10:30:16
- hollystarfish
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Problem with installation of Scratch
I am finding it impossible to install Scratch on my computer.
There are some files that will not install, such as scratch.exe. When I dowload the .zip file instead and extract the files, the same files are password protected and cannot be extracted. Can somebody help with this please?
Thanks.
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#2 2012-04-23 15:11:46
- Paddle2See
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
hollystarfish wrote:
I am finding it impossible to install Scratch on my computer.
There are some files that will not install, such as scratch.exe. When I dowload the .zip file instead and extract the files, the same files are password protected and cannot be extracted. Can somebody help with this please?
Thanks.
Perhaps you need to be in Administrator mode? Maybe it's prompting you for the Administrator password on your computer?
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#4 2012-04-23 18:46:49
- RedRocker227
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
If the files are password-protected, you've downloaded it from the wrong place - here's the right place. Unless Paddle's correct and it's asking for an administrator password, in which case it's not a problem with Scratch and rather your computer. 
Why
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#5 2012-04-26 16:50:40
- hollystarfish
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
Hi guys, thanks for the suggestions but nothing seems to work. I have downloaded from the right place and I have administrative privilages on the machine (I am logged in as administrator). How do I post an image (screenshot) on this forum?
Cheers.
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#6 2012-04-26 16:55:12
Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
hollystarfish wrote:
Hi guys, thanks for the suggestions but nothing seems to work. I have downloaded from the right place and I have administrative privilages on the machine (I am logged in as administrator). How do I post an image (screenshot) on this forum?
Cheers.
Well, you upload an image in a image-website- like tiny-pic and then put [img0[/img] on the forums...
P.S:
Replace the 0 with ]...
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#7 2012-04-26 17:18:34
- hollystarfish
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
I am not allowed put images (anything with a [img] tag) in a post. Try the following url:
http://tinypic.com/r/331lkt0/6
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#8 2012-04-26 17:24:56
- RedRocker227
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
I don't know what WinScratch1.4 is, but I don't remember that from my installation, so it may be something to do with that. 
You definitely did download from the page I linked to earlier, right? Since I also don't recognise the image in the installation wizard or anything else for that matter, though you have got a different operating system so it may be correct.
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#9 2012-04-27 00:27:57
- cheddargirl
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
RedRocker227 wrote:
I don't know what WinScratch1.4 is, but I don't remember that from my installation, so it may be something to do with that.
You definitely did download from the page I linked to earlier, right? Since I also don't recognise the image in the installation wizard or anything else for that matter, though you have got a different operating system so it may be correct.
I know what that is, WinScratch1.4 is the name of the ZIP file of the files-only version of Scratch.
@hollystarfish: It sounds like you're trying to install Scratch manually. Did you try using the ScratchInstaller.exe file initially and ended up with similar installation problems?
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#11 2012-04-27 13:25:40
- hollystarfish
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
The intallation executable would not work, hence my attempt and downloading and extracting the .zip file instead. The .exe installation returned errors for the same files that demand a password when I try to extract them from the .zip file. I am running XP home edition if that helps
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#12 2012-04-29 02:17:09
- cheddargirl
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
I did a test installation on my laptop since my computer also runs Windows XP Home edition. The file unzipped fine.
I took a look at the screenshot file, it seems that one of the files that is causing a problem is a dll file. Is it just the dll files that is causing the problem? If it's just the dll files, then your computer is probably reading dll files incorrectly as a password protected file for some reason.
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#13 2012-04-29 18:45:23
- chanmanpartyman
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
I have to go soon, so I can't look for the source code or squeak. What you need to do is download the source code for 1.4, then download squeak. Then you either open squeak with the source code or vice versa (can't remember) and you have Scratch. You can't do as much (as in upload/import/export/open/etc.) but you can still program. This is definitely a last resort.
If anyone can add links and such, please do so.
Gotta go!
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#14 2012-05-09 17:22:06
- hollystarfish
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
[I took a look at the screenshot file, it seems that one of the files that is causing a problem is a dll file. Is it just the dll files that is causing the problem? If it's just the dll files, then your computer is probably reading dll files incorrectly as a password protected file for some reason.]
No, the problem is with scratch.exe also!
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#15 2012-05-09 23:46:20
- cheddargirl
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
hollystarfish wrote:
[I took a look at the screenshot file, it seems that one of the files that is causing a problem is a dll file. Is it just the dll files that is causing the problem? If it's just the dll files, then your computer is probably reading dll files incorrectly as a password protected file for some reason.]
No, the problem is with scratch.exe also!
Could it be a security problem also? Anti-virus software sometimes has a tendency to be picky about exe files.
I can;t really think of anything else that might be the problem, other than that something about your computer keep rejecting the files for some reason. As an alternative, maybe you can have a friend unzip the files onto a pen drive and then transfer the files from the pen drive to your computer?
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#16 2012-06-08 03:01:12
- juiceman74
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Re: Problem with installation of Scratch
I'm getting an installation error, which happens in two different computers: one at home, the other in school, both installation files were dl a long time ago and suddenly I get an installation issue: "Installer integrity check is failed... More information NSIS.SF.NET/NSIS_Error.
Were either talking about a virus (unlikely), or an validation date which expired.
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