Adobe CC thinks my Local Hard Drive is a Network Location

[Merlin_Reza_Druzinec]

There is nothing, no page, no nothing about my Issue, except for an entry in the Documentation, which, unfortunately, doesn't help at all. This is one of the weirdest errors I've encountered with a program to date:

Whenever I want to install Illustrator on my new SSD, I get the error "Specified installation directory is a network location" with exit code/error code 176:

Exit Code: 176

-------------------------------------- Summary ----------------------------

• 2 fatal error(s), 0 error(s), 0 warnings(s)

FATAL: Can't install to a network location

FATAL: Error occured in install product workflow with error code 176 error message

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Though, my SSD is a local drive connected with the standard SATA3 Cables - there's no networking going on at all over there.

The only thing I could think of here is, that I had them installed on another drive which then I had to remove and that messed something up. That said, I had to manually delete all the entries in the Registry as the program (Illustrator) was still shown as Installed, but couldn't be launched as the drive was missing. I can install other products fine, I *have* changed my Temp and Program Data folders to the new Drive I got as a replacement.

How do I resolve this? Thanks in Advance!

[DelicateB]

No

[kglad]

are you installing the adobe apps on fixed internal drive?

[DelicateB]

No, external drive --> SSD

[kglad]

ssd can be internal or external.

someone's probably going to need to connect to your computer to resolve the problem-> contact adobe support.  there are 3 ways to contact adobe; chat, phone and twitter:

chat:
use a browser that allows popups and cookies, and click here, https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?rghtup=autoOpen
in the chat field (lower right), type AGENT
be patient, it can take quite a while to reach a human.

phone:
https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/phone.html

twitter:
tweet @AdobeCare

p.s. if you're contacted by anyone (via email or private message), it's much more likely to be a scammer than an adobe representative. ie, double check for an employee badge if contacted in the forums and look for an adobe.com domain in the email address if you click reply to an email. then check again and be very suspicious. any other method of contacting (or offering to contact you) is almost certainly a scam, https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community-discussions/staying-safe-in-the-adobe-support-com...

[DelicateB]

thank you for your time

[kglad]

you're welcome. 

please update this thread with what they find.

[unstableentropy]

Thank you! This worked for me and only took a minute to do.

[Guest]

Thanks for this! This problem has been giving me a headache for a week now.

[poncarlu@gmail.com]

I had exactcly the same issue and it was solved the same way you did. Thank you !!