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Fresh Qt install, Qt Creator not working because Utils.dll wasn't found

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  • MatusGuyM Offline
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    MatusGuy
    wrote on last edited by MatusGuy
    #1

    I reinstalled Qt and now Qt Creator isn't working because this error message pops up (twice) when trying to start it:
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    So, I opened Qt Design Studio, despite never trying it, and that opened correctly, but when I open my project, I get these errors, which block me from working on my project:
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    I reinstalled Qt because Qt Creator was acting very slow and my kits were suddenly incompatible.

    Edit: I forgot to mention that I also tried installing Qt Creator via https://www.qt.io/offline-installers > Qt Creator, but that gave the same error

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      wrote on last edited by MatusGuy
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      ... and so I installed it in the C drive, it worked, i'm not even gonna touch it

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      • hskoglundH Offline
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        #2

        Hi, if you install Qt on C: (instead of E:) do you get the same error?

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        • hskoglundH hskoglund

          Hi, if you install Qt on C: (instead of E:) do you get the same error?

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          #3

          @hskoglund Wow okay, I first tried installing only Qt Creator in C:\Qt\qtcreator-8.0.0 using https://www.qt.io/offline-installers (because my C drive is quite full and E has 1TB of capacity) and so it started up with no errors
          Now I just need to link Qt, but it's not recognizing it
          cbbf85a9-add0-4e5e-a1f6-d04a008067a5-image.png

          Should I still try installing Qt to C:? And if so, can I just copy the Qt directory to C: because downloading, extracting and installing takes ages?

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            #4

            I found Utils.dll inside C:\Qt\qtcreator-8.0.0\bin, I'm going to try reinstalling qt creator in E: again

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            • MatusGuyM MatusGuy

              I found Utils.dll inside C:\Qt\qtcreator-8.0.0\bin, I'm going to try reinstalling qt creator in E: again

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              #5

              @MatusGuy Utils.dll is just missing when I try to install in E, the only different thing I noted when installing to E was this warning
              db8c9eba-eb7a-4efc-bd94-c2017740a5bf-image.png

              If I press retry, it shows again, so I pressed ignore

              Instead of installing, I will copy Qt Creator from C to E
              And so I did and it started just like the one in C

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              • MatusGuyM MatusGuy

                @hskoglund Wow okay, I first tried installing only Qt Creator in C:\Qt\qtcreator-8.0.0 using https://www.qt.io/offline-installers (because my C drive is quite full and E has 1TB of capacity) and so it started up with no errors
                Now I just need to link Qt, but it's not recognizing it
                cbbf85a9-add0-4e5e-a1f6-d04a008067a5-image.png

                Should I still try installing Qt to C:? And if so, can I just copy the Qt directory to C: because downloading, extracting and installing takes ages?

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                MatusGuy
                wrote on last edited by
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                @MatusGuy Qt also kind of failed to install and that's why I can't link it to Qt Creator, does this mean every time I want to install Qt, I'll have to install on C (i recently freed some space from my C drive) first and then copy to E? Maybe something's wrong with my E drive? How common even is this problem?

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                  MatusGuy
                  wrote on last edited by MatusGuy
                  #7

                  ... and so I installed it in the C drive, it worked, i'm not even gonna touch it

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                  • SGaistS Offline
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                    #8

                    Hi,

                    Out of curiosity, what kind of medium is your E drive ?

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                    • SGaistS SGaist

                      Hi,

                      Out of curiosity, what kind of medium is your E drive ?

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                      wrote on last edited by MatusGuy
                      #9

                      @SGaist An internal secondary HDD which came with the computer, my C drive is an SSD

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                      • hskoglundH Offline
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                        #10

                        Hi (also curious) perhaps your secondary HDD (the E: drive) is formatted with exFAT instead of NTFS?

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                        • hskoglundH hskoglund

                          Hi (also curious) perhaps your secondary HDD (the E: drive) is formatted with exFAT instead of NTFS?

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                          MatusGuy
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                          #11

                          @hskoglund No

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