Though quite frustrating this all seems a bit silly to me. While I have occasionally run into authorization problems with other software vendors, I can't recall a time where simply downloading the content was so problematic. FXPansions "ticket" thingy is nothing more than a useless impediment to the user. As it stands now even if I wanted to install and run BFD3 on my home laptop (instead of simply using it as temporary storage) I couldn't because I cannot open the "audio ticket" to get the samples at all. Sheesh.

That's odd...did you do the "generate ticket" thingy?

Download Users
1) Download the BFD3 Software Installer 
2) Download the ticket for downloading the Core Library audio data
Note - if having issues, right click on this link and select "Save As": Download Ticket
3) Follow these instructions: HTML or PDF

Yup...but on my win10 machine if you right click on the "help" link to the file it only gives three options...none of which are save or save as, as in other Windows iterations and every option just gave me the page full of file paths.

SO....

This morning I went and got my wife's laptop, which is an old vista machine. Still couldn't get the download ticket by double clicking the menu option but DID get by right clicking the "help" link and saving as to a USB flash drive. Then I took that down to my win10 lappie and ran the BFD3 installer...then double clicked the "ticket" file which brought up a screen saying I needed to authorize BFD3...which I did not want to do...so...as you suggested earlier I hit Cancel and that screen went away leaving a screen that said...miracle of miracles...that the audio data WAS downloading and would take approx 6 hours. So far still humming.

Of course I'll still have to copy all of that to my portable 1T USB drive and take it downtown to my DAW and try and get it all to work.

Pretty lame.

yorolpal
Yup...but on my win10 machine if you right click on the "help" link to the file it only gives three options...none of which are save or save as, as in other Windows iterations and every option just gave me the page full of file paths.

SO....

This morning I went and got my wife's laptop, which is an old vista machine. Still couldn't get the download ticket by double clicking the menu option but DID get by right clicking the "help" link and saving as to a USB flash drive. Then I took that down to my win10 lappie and ran the BFD3 installer...then double clicked the "ticket" file which brought up a screen saying I needed to authorize BFD3...which I did not want to do...so...as you suggested earlier I hit Cancel and that screen went away leaving a screen that said...miracle of miracles...that the audio data WAS downloading and would take approx 6 hours. So far still humming.

Of course I'll still have to copy all of that to my portable 1T USB drive and take it downtown to my DAW and try and get it all to work.

Pretty lame.

One of the pitfalls of "online authorization" but I knew that I had done it...
I keep EVERY installer and other file "archived" on a storage drive...

I can feel your pain Ol' Pal. I have the program and core library stored on different drives. If my main drive goes down I'll just have to install the program. Files that big take a long time to install even if you have them on a stick.

I get about 15mbps download speed at home...only 3mbps at the studio...and I started downloading the approx 40 gig file about 10:30 this morning. It's now 6pm and I just hit 60% downloaded. Sheesh!

Then I still have to copy that to my pocket USB drive, take it down to my DAW tomorrow and hope I can get it all working right.

OK...it's now 11pm and I've been stuck at 99% downloaded and "in the queue" for about 30 minutes. From my web sleuthing this is a fairly common occurance. I'm going to let it run overnight and see if that resolves the problem...though I bet not. What a crock and a cock-up of a download system.

yorolpal
OK...it's now 11pm and I've been stuck at 99% downloaded and "in the queue" for about 30 minutes. From my web sleuthing this is a fairly common occurance. I'm going to let it run overnight and see if that resolves the problem...though I bet not. What a crock and a cock-up of a download system.

 Been there... done that...would rather watch the movie....

This is making me feel better about not making the leap to BFD3...yet. I watched a few videos about installing and it seemed a little overly complicated.

clintmartin
This is making me feel better about not making the leap to BFD3...yet. I watched a few videos about installing and it seemed a little overly complicated.

It's not as bad as it seems...off line install is the big thing...because of the hoops you have to jump
through to get there..