My obs app won't download.

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CharCharBeanz89

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I'm trying to download obs on my usb stick witch I checked and it has enough storage on it but every time it says "error writing to file"then it says a random file name.
 
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WBE

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Then please try to avoid downloading directly to usb. Could you find a computer which you can use with some free hard disk space?
Does the usb stick have barely enough available storage space, of dozens of GBs? Do you have many (small) files at the usb stick?
 
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CharCharBeanz89

New Member
i have one small file on usb but there is more than enough storage and my computer has somthing taking up space but im not sure what it is
also thank you
 
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konsolenritter

Active Member
Are you downloading the OBS installer from the official website? It sounds strange to hear that "it says a random file name". Downloading the OBS installer from the net by using a normal webbrowser shouldn't come along with a random file name.

Maybe your usb stick is a honky hoax. As advised by WBE try to download the OBS installer file to a local storage disk on your computer and transfer it afterwards to the stick (to see where exactly the problem arises).
 
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CharCharBeanz89

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it doesn't say "a random file" it just says different file names that OBS has to download for it to work. Also as I said before there is not enough storage on any local storage disks on my computer.
 
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konsolenritter

Active Member
The official OBS full installer is 86 Megabytes now. Not Gigabytes, nor Terabytes. I'm afraid: If you don't have spare diskspace in the order of nearby 100 Megabytes, your computer will suffer from other problems too, i think. We can't help that much then.

You download(ed) OBS from here, right?

Welcome | OBS

OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) is free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Stream to Twitch, YouTube and many other providers or record your own videos with high quality H264 / AAC encoding.
obsproject.com obsproject.com
 
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konsolenritter

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Okay. So its no problem with OBS in the first manner. It needs temporary space during installation (due to inflate of the compressed installer), but this is valid for any program you want to install. So its a generic task now for you to uninstall unneeded programs or delete old data files.

May we ask you what kind of computer it is? Proof if its too old in general terms (cpu, gpu, ram) before investing time and love into this machine.
 
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konsolenritter

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Sounds like a machine not really capable to render obs in a useful manner. Behold: Live and instant video and audio processing and encoding (this is what OBS is for) is really computational demanding. You need good hardware for.
 
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WBE

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CharCharBeanz89 said:
i used to have obs installed and it worked fine but now it wont seem to work
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Does that imply that the download process itself was succesful?

I agree with konsolenritter that that is at least a challenging computer... but if it worked before, you could try to download that specific old version: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/releases (Using older versions in general comes with some risks, but under these circumstances it might be worth a try.)
 
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