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Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:43 pm**

Since I work at an educational institution (allegedly), I've got access to the MSDN Alliance website which allows me to download MacroShaft products for free. After getting my old laptop up & running, it was time to grab the bloated 3 & a half gig .iso that is Visual Studio 2008.

Five fucking hours later, the download finishes, & the downloader app start to unpack the .iso, presumably in my download folder. The unpack job finishes & I go to look in the folder. No .iso there. Windows search also says it's not there or anywhere else on my hard disk. I manually looked through the directory -- nothing. WTF did I just spend five hours downloading? Figured at worst I could rerun the app & download another one. Nope. "You have reached your download limit."

If you're reading this, MacroShaft, THIS is why people pirate your software. Fuck you. If the installer says it's in a folder, it goddamned well better be there. Fuck you & fuck your licenses.

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:00 pm**

When I dl MSDN stuff, I just ISOs directly, not sure what you mean by the downloader app "unpacking" the iso. The downloader app just downloads whatever.

If you download a different file, it should default to whatever directory your downloaded the last app.

For 2008, I assume you got either:
en_visual_studio_2008_professional_x86_x64wow_dvd_X14-26326.iso
or
en_visual_studio_team_system_2008_team_suite_x86_dvd_X14-26461.iso

(in case file names help)

Posted: **Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:34 pm**

When I click the link, I get a downloader app (navy blue circle w\ a lightning bolt thru it). That downloads & unpacks it to a directory I pick.

Downloading & unpacking finished. Iso wasn't there. The downloader was positively convinced it was in c:\downloads. Explorer & Windows Search disagreed. The search was expanded to my entire hard disk. Nothing. Problem appears to have been solved, though. I found an end-run around it.

Posted: **Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:28 pm**

OK, so you don't see something like this:

Weird.

Edited By TheCatt on 1265329729

Posted: **Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:14 pm**

Raided another one of my laptops looking for a previously dl'd .iso. Found it. Eureka.