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Posted: **13 May 2021 05:22**

The new upgrade to VLC Media Player 3.0.14 will not launch from the Installer according to the message I receive upon downloading the upgrade.
The message says "You will need to manually launch from your temp folder after the download."
I do not know how to find the temp folder to manually launch it. Can someone supply me with rather explicit instructions on how to do this. I am using Windows 10.
Thanks.

Posted: **13 May 2021 07:54**

I had the same question and found this: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3 ... pdate.html

The relevant part:

Description:
This notice applies to VLC 3.0.13 and VLC 3.0.12 users.
Due to a mistake introduced in the automatic updater code, updates will be downloaded, verified for integrity, but will not be installed. This is bad and we would like to apologize for this.

Instructions:
In order to update to 3.0.14, you will need to go to https://www.videolan.org/vlc to download and install VLC manually.
You can find details instructions on how to do so here

If you already ran the updater and it downloaded the installer, you can run it manually by opening a file explorer (Windows key + E, or just click the explorer icon) and enter %TEMP% as the location.
You'll see the installer there. It will be named «vlc-3.0.14-win32.exe» or «vlc-3.0.14-win64.exe» respectively depending on whether you're using a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows.

Basically you can just download the current installer, and then select the option to "upgrade/update VLC using the current settings" and it should work fine. I had no issues this way and all my settings are intact.

Good luck!

Posted: **22 Sep 2021 19:57**

I had the same question and found this: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3 ... pdate.html

The relevant part:
Description:
This notice applies to VLC 3.0.13 and VLC 3.0.12 users.
Due to a mistake introduced in the automatic updater code, updates will be downloaded, verified for integrity, but will not be installed. This is bad and we would like to apologize for this.

Instructions:
In order to update to 3.0.14, you will need to go to https://www.videolan.org/vlc to download and install VLC manually.
You can find details instructions on how to do so here

If you already ran the updater and it downloaded the installer, you can run it manually by opening a file explorer (Windows key + E, or just click the explorer icon) and enter %TEMP% as the location.
You'll see the installer there. It will be named «vlc-3.0.14-win32.exe» or «vlc-3.0.14-win64.exe» respectively depending on whether you're using a 32bit or 64bit version of Windows.

Basically you can just download the current installer, and then select the option to "upgrade/update VLC using the current settings" and it should work fine. I had no issues this way and all my settings are intact.

Good luck!

is it sad that even an IT student like me forgets where the temp folder is? Thanks for reminding me how to get there, SMH
side note, I think it's kind of funny that this update caused "Temp folder VLC" to be recommended when I typed temp folder into Firefox' address bar... Congrats on the popularity, I guess, videolan

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