When installing BFD, the second disk fails to complete isntallation and indicates that a there’s a problem. Is this a bad disk?
The BFD disks are mostly likely fine. The installer in BFD for the data portion seems to have problems on some machines. This is not a huge problem as it is extremely easy to install it manually. Here’s how to perform a manual installation:
* Firstly, the current BFD version has changed from that supplied with the boxed version. The best thing to do is to download the latest update as described elsewhere in this FAQ, and install it. This installs the plugin files: i.e. the VST / AudioUnit / RTAS / DXi / ReWire components.
* After this, you need to manually copy the contents of the BFD folders on the two DVDs to a single folder called BFD anywhere on any hard drive in your system.
The easiest way to do it (especially on Mac) is to copy the BFD folder from DVD1 to your hard drive, then copy the contents of the BFD/Data and BFD/Kits/Factory from DVD2 to the corresponding folders in the BFD folder you copied from DVD1.
When you run BFD for the first time, it will prompt you for the location of this folder. If you cannot see any kits to load, please go to the Options panel inside BFD and make sure that the Data Path location is correctly pointing at your hard drive’s BFD folder.
If you are unsure of the data structure in your installation, just make sure that the contents of the BFD folder on your hard drive exactly matches that of the BFD folders on the two DVDs.
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