Well here's what I can say...

I use SEVERAL DAW's...all of which installed and work PERFECTLY...

Custom Shop 1.6 does NOT work for me...

I even reverted back to 1.5 and NOW that doesn't work either...
although it had worked fine since it's release and before the update...

No program that I have installed has failed...except this one....
facts are facts...

I guess I'm the "rare" exception....

Have not listened to libraries but install was smooth. Custom shop seems to work

I'm not having the same issue as you Larry, but somehow my ST3 installation went to demo mode, or appeared to.  I checked the path to the samples and it was correct... hit refresh and it did nothing... checked custom shop to see if there was something I need to do to re-enable my existing content... reloaded ST3, nothing, refreshed again, nothing... re-authorized... and reloaded ST3, still nothing... hit refresh... nothing... exited and checked custom shop one more time.  Didn't see anything there, so I exited and decided to check ST3 one more time.  Still shows the demo, but this last time hitting the refresh button seemed to be rebuild my database.  And only on the fourth or fifth try.  Gotta love reliable software. 
 
If they spent half as much time making there software actually work as they do coming up with clever advertising and neat little marketing schemes I think I might consider buying from them again, but I don't think I'll make that mistake again.

Bach is god, bit.

Glad you agree, Fleer. Much more disciplined than those new kids who flaunt the rules, Wagner and Beethoven. Loud, loud and louder! 120 dbSPL at their concerts, I hear. Those cats must be deaf. Two sets of tympani AND a bass drum. What's next, some Russian firing off canons?

Rain
Visting this forum last night after the session reminded me of the update, so I went back to the studio computer and proceeded to do it during the night not to lose any time.
 
Download of ST 3.5 and the library update (around 1.47 GB IIRC) took less than 5 minutes. 
 
No issue whatsoever during installation. The library update even pointed to the correct (custom) folder. No authorization issue.
 
I then launched ST in standalone mode so that it could do its indexing thing, which took a while - I'd say maybe between 10-15 minutes. I do have all the other ST instruments/libraries and a couple of Sonic Reality add-ons, so I guess it's a lot to scan.
 
Haven't tested the new functionalities or the CS. As for the library, I'm using ST very sporadically, only for a couple of patches (electric Basses and, irregularly, a couple of Miroslav patches) so I couldn't tell.

Glad to hear it went well for you.

I tried a third time to download and install. No problem with the download, it downloads in 5 mins as you say. But as far as the install goes it definitely hangs for me and errors out. I reported the error code to IKMultimedia in a support ticket.

I had no problems with this update.  The last one I had to install ASIO4ALL to get it to run. I skipped the Custom Shop install. My ST folder is over 70 gigs. I should find plenty to use in all of that.

Fleer
Bach is god, bit.

Bach is a given. You don't even need to mention him. There's Bach, then there's geniuses like Mozart and Beethoven... By the way - Deutschland über alles!
 
As for Wagner... 
 
 

dupe

bitflipper
What's next, some Russian firing off canons?

For those about to rock...