Installer Exit Code #6

[itibsolution]

Hi there!
I'm trying to update OBS on several systems on the network.
Many of them send back exit code #6, which I know means files are currently in use.
But I don't find a log of the installer or a documentation which apps need to be closed prior to installation.
Could anyone help?

Cheers,
Dominik

 

[Winkster]

Sorry for the necro-post, but leaving this here but this very same problem dogged me for YEARS before I figured out the solution. So posting for future generations of Googlers ;-]

SPEAKING OF GOOGLE, the solution is to kill all active Chrome processes. I have the (excellent) SysInternals package installed on my Windows machine so just dropping to a command prompt and entering...

pskill chrome

...does the trick. After killing all active chrome.exe processes the OBS update should work flawlessly.

I forget what originally inspired me to try this, possibly open file handles, but at any rate I have confirmed this to work since 2023 or 2024. Chrome, while it is running, must be holding on to a resource that the OBS Studio installer needs to do its update. Note that merely closing the browser doesn't always work because Chrome seems to leave behind some stub chrome.exe processes, presumably to speed up the launching of the browser. Strongly recommending a tool such as pskill.

HTH