I know.. and I did that (the click on Location to set it as default). One thing though: Does it make sense to waste SSD space with static binaries? In my case the games are on the SSD, thus the zip files are using writes on my SSD, for no good reason. :-)
In other words: Being able to choose one location for putting the zip and patch files, another for putting the games would be preferrable.
Thanks for your great work.
First off, thanks for your quick answer.
The game was never installed using the client before I started the AC download; so it probably didn't have anything to do with the zip file ending up on C: . It may have been because the client foolishly ;) treats the download location in the user's profile directory as more important than the manually added directories.
Anyhow, the full download was on C: . The client showed the game as not installed, and when I clicked download again, it started the download at 0% again. My take? The client ONLY ever looks in the "default" location for games, even for the downloaded ZIP files. So it didn't look at the file it just downloaded to C: and instead started again from 0% on another drive.
And patching.. yes, I was hoping for this. It's kind of a drab to redownload AC fully every week with a 16 MBit/s line ;-)
Well, the client looks well-polished (and is for the most part).. these things just caught me in a bad moment :p
Keep up the good quality.
Thanks a lot and out,
Frederic
Hi,
just had the pleasure of using the itch.io client in the current version for the first time.
I proceeded to reinstall the AvenColony installation on another harddrive (which was set up as the _DEFAULT_ install dir in the itch-io client). After an hour the download finished in the background, did something random and then installed nothing.
The drive I was forced to install the itch-io client upon (C:) was/is full with the download completely unpacked unto my system's SSD.. there's a 2.7 GB download in the default-install location/downloads/ directory, which is obviously not enough and thus fails to unpack.
My C: drive is stuck at 20 MB of free space, and I have no idea where the itch-io client decided to waste the about 10 GB of free space before starting the 4.7 GB download. The usual suspects (windows-temp, user appdata-local-itch, etc.) don't contain the files.
edit:
I just found you are using the roaming-directory/itch/ to contain the download archive while downloading, and you also unpack the whole frigging (in this case) ZIP archive in that directory... WHILE you are installing the game to a wholly different drive. Did anyone think this through?
--- Found out myself where it clutters up my system harddrive..
* WHY doesn't it clean up after itself when it is done ?
* And why does it not resume partially downloaded files, but instead redownload everything from scratch ?
Also, you can't limit the bandwidth usage, same as with the GOG Galaxy client, so you are in good company there ;)
Any ideas?
Fixes?
New versions?
Regards,
Frederic
