Game Fails To Update Via Client "Content" Update Button

[TechnoWolfTV]

Minetest version

Minetest 5.8.0 Win64

Irrlicht device

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Operating system and version

Windows 11 Home 23H2

CPU model

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GPU model

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Active renderer

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Summary

I'm the maintainer of a game on ContentDB titled, "Adventurelands". I have noticed that when attempting to update the game via client it fails every time and on any device I attempt to do so on. No other mods or games seem to have this problem. ContentDB suggested posting a bug report here. After an update attempt, the following error is displayed:

Error installing "Adventurelands": Failed to install adventurelands to C:\Users\technowolftv\Documents\Minetest\games\adventurelands

After this, the game is missing from the main menu. When browsing to the install path, the game's folder is still there but the game.conf is missing (and possibly some other files) which explains why client cannot see it any more. When examining debug.txt, there are a number of errors logged about this. Example:

2024-05-14 10:10:43: ERROR[Main]: RecursiveDelete: Failed to delete file C:\Users\technowolftv\Documents\Minetest\games\adventurelands\menu\theme.ogg
2024-05-14 10:10:43: ERROR[Main]: RecursiveDelete: Failed to recurse to C:\Users\technowolftv\Documents\Minetest\games\adventurelands\menu\theme.ogg
2024-05-14 10:10:43: ERROR[Main]: RecursiveDelete: Failed to recurse to C:\Users\technowolftv\Documents\Minetest\games\adventurelands\menu
2024-05-14 10:10:43: ERROR[Main]: MoveDir: target "C:\Users\technowolftv\Documents\Minetest\games\adventurelands" exists as file or non-empty folder
2024-05-14 10:12:54: ERROR[Main]: RecursiveDelete: Failed to delete file C:\Users\technowolftv\Documents\Minetest\games\adventurelands

So, in order to update, I must manually delete the adventurelands folder at C:\Users\technowolftv\Documents\Minetest\games\adventurelands and then reinstall from scratch.

Steps to reproduce

Have an existing install of the "Adventurelands" game installed via client, and then attempt to update it via client when an update is available.

[grorp]

duplicate of #14193?