Issues with tinytex downloads

[Zdenek Wagner]

No, it should not be a problem of Windows. It has an old API for old
programs and a new API for nowaday's programs. The problem is most
probably somewhere in between Windows and the installer.

Zdeněk Wagner
https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/

so 4. 2. 2023 v 19:49 odesílatel Eli Holland <eli.holland.173 at gmail.com> napsal:
>
> Gentlemen!
>
> Thank you so much for your responses. This has sent me down a deeper path of investigating my PC. I am in the process of doing a full wipe of R, RSE and RTools and will install them in a different spot and see if that fixes the issue. If not then I will do a full reinstall of Windows which hasn't been done in a good long while which likely explains the old Windows API as it works fine on my laptop which is much more recent compared to my desktop computer. This has put me on the correct path. Thank you so much for your help.
>
> Best wishes from the US,
>
> Eli Holland
>
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 2:38 AM Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am not a Windows expert but I see a potential problem not only with
>> the user name. Windows have two APIs for file access. All GUI apps use
>> the new one hwich has just a few limitations on file names. The old
>> API is retained for compatibility with the old DOS where file names
>> were limited to 8.3 US-ASCII (with forbidden character such as *, ?,
>> space etc). If a name did not fit to this rule, Windows created an
>> alias name from the first 6 characters followed by ~1, ~2, ~3 etc to
>> make it unique. I see names with ~1 even in other path elements which
>> could mean that you run the program in an evironment using the very
>> old API.
>>
>> Zdeněk Wagner
>> https://www.zdenek-wagner.eu/
>>
>> pá 3. 2. 2023 v 8:55 odesílatel Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> napsal:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 02 Feb 2023, Eli Holland wrote:
>> > > Drive/2022-2023/2023 Winter/educ260b/pset3/analysis/C:\Users\Lil'
>> > > Chunky\AppData\Roaming\TinyTeX\tlpkg\gpg/pubring.kbx': No such file or
>> > > directory
>> >
>> > What is your Windows user name?
>> >
>> > It seems it is not only normal characters ...
>> >
>> > Best
>> >
>> > Norbert
>> >
>> > --
>> > PREINING Norbert                              https://www.preining.info
>> > Mercari Inc.     +     IFMGA Guide     +     TU Wien     +     TeX Live
>> > GPG: 0x860CDC13   fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13