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 Asura.Iamarealgirl
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By Asura.Iamarealgirl 2021-03-27 13:57:40
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i moved POL to a new drive since the old one was filling up fast. i got a message when i tried to start it up - "playonline viewer installation cannot write to specified"
so i uninstalled it and redownloaded it to the new drive.
i started it up and it worked. so i logged out to add my other characters and a few files for dgvoodoo and update the maps etc.
when i start POL up again, i get the "playonline viewer installation cannot write to specified" message again. i've gone through and adjusted the adminstration writes on all the folders. i even adjusted the drive folders adminstartion thinking maybe that was it (my first time having a second drive so no clue what i'm doing with that). so i'm wondering how i can fix this?
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By Asura.Iamarealgirl 2021-03-27 13:58:50
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oh also i tried both with windower and without windower to see if that was part of the problem but happens either way.
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By DaneBlood 2021-03-27 14:25:52
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have you cleande out the registry entries for POL? if not they might still be pointing to old location
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By Asura.Iamarealgirl 2021-03-27 14:32:08
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just did that now its saying "class not registered"
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By Asura.Iamarealgirl 2021-03-27 14:37:16
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also i found this and tried it but still not working:
cd /d "D:\games\Steam\SteamApps\common\ffxi\SquareEnix\"
pause
FOR /R %%G IN (*.dll) DO regsvr32 /s "%%G"
pause

(and yes i changed the address to the new address)
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By DaneBlood 2021-03-27 15:11:33
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oh you are using the steam version im a bit lost here then as I've never used the steam version

maybe try to downloaedi t form SE ?
http://www.playonline.com/ff11us/download/media/install_win.html
its the entire game but it does contain pol.

im just shootting from the hip here
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By RadialArcana 2021-03-27 15:19:23
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class not registered is a registry fail.

You don't need to run FFXI through Steam, even if you bought it via Steam. Codes are universal to all launchers.

Regardless, easiest way to fix this is to uninstall with the tool and re-install so all registry entries are made fresh.

If you backed up all the files previously somewhere else you can stop the update file portion of the install and copy them over.
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By Asura.Iamarealgirl 2021-03-27 16:37:24
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I am using the download from playonline.com. I have steam on my computer but I don't use it. I did buy the registry codes from steam but I downloaded from pol. Also I already refownloaded it today but I will give it another shot. Ty for the suggestions
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By Bahamut.Neb 2021-03-27 17:24:35
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its dgvoodoo I have had the same problem delete the files you moved over and only move back D3D8.dll
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By Asura.Iamarealgirl 2021-03-27 18:16:40
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no not dgvoodoo, idid a full reinstall, no added files/folders, just plain vanilla POL. back to my original problem where it says "playonline viewer installation cannot write to specified..."
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