{"id":901,"date":"2017-04-21T13:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=901"},"modified":"2021-03-03T10:41:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T10:41:50","slug":"the-specified-directory-for-the-installshareddir-parameter-is-not-valid","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/knowledge-base\/the-specified-directory-for-the-installshareddir-parameter-is-not-valid\/","title":{"rendered":"Error: The specified directory for the INSTALLSHAREDDIR parameter is not valid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the installation of Diamonds\/ PowerConnect (version 2017 until 2019r02),\u00a0you get the error:<\/p>\n<p><em>The specified directory, \u00abC:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\\u00bb, for the INSTALLSHAREDDIR parameter is not valid because this directory is compressed or is in a compressed directory. Specify a directory that is not compressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This error is related to the\u00a0database system (= SQL\u00a0instance) used by these versions.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution 1<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Install Diamonds\/PowerConnect\/BIM Expert 2020 or more recent. These versions so a different type of database, which no longer requires the installation of an SQL instance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Solution 2<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>On the desired folder (in this case \u201c<strong>C:\\Program Files<\/strong>\u201d) right click and go to <strong>Properties<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click on <strong>Advanced<\/strong> button.<\/li>\n<li>Uncheck the box <strong>Compress the drive to save space<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Apply<\/strong> and then <strong>Ok<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Let the process finish.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-903 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/buildsoftsupport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sql_installshareddir_solution.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sql_installshareddir_solution.png 678w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sql_installshareddir_solution-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sql_installshareddir_solution-50x24.png 50w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sql_installshareddir_solution-60x29.png 60w, https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/sql_installshareddir_solution-35x17.png 35w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the installation of Diamonds\/ PowerConnect (version 2017 until 2019r02),\u00a0you get the error: The specified directory, \u00abC:\\Program Files\\Microsoft SQL Server\\\u00bb, for the INSTALLSHAREDDIR parameter is not valid because this directory is compressed or is in a compressed directory. Specify a directory that is not compressed. This error is related to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"ht-kb-category":[44],"ht-kb-tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/901\/revisions\/6374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=901"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.buildsoft.eu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}