FL Flowstone Export Overwrite Bug

[Perfect Human Interface]

There seems to be a bug with at least the FL Studio version of Flowstone where overwriting (Fruity) exports does not always work. This isn't the error you get if the target file is being accessed by FL and you try to overwrite it, but rather it will seem to overwrite the exported plugin successfully but instead you find that the plugin is the same as before overwriting.

Workaround is to either manually delete existing export or export with a new filename.

[Tronic]

what system you use?
for me it is an folder permission issue....

[Perfect Human Interface]

It's Windows 7 64bit if that's what you mean.

Could folder permissions prevent it from overwriting even if it shows no error and appears to export successfully?

[tulamide]

Could folder permissions prevent it from overwriting even if it shows no error and appears to export successfully?

Yes, because that depends on the application, not the OS. The OS tells the application that there is a permission issue, but the application has to deal with it (including the decision to silently ignore the issue)

But on the other hand, what folder are you saving in? All folders in the user area usually grant full access.

[Perfect Human Interface]

Interesting. I'm saving it directly into the FL Studio fruity effects folder, which is the default (I've tried saving exports elsewhere in the past and it didn't work for some reason). Of course since I'm talking about overwrites I'm able to save exports there normally, it's just overwriting existing files that doesn't always work.