Every fatal message told the user THAT something failed but not what to do
about it. The worst was "conda env create failed. See output above." --
useless when run_install_capture.bat redirects that output to a 56 KB log.
Each error now names the likely cause and the concrete next step:
- download failed -> the URL tried, firewall/proxy hint, manual-install
fallback that install.bat will detect on re-run
- truncated download -> got N bytes vs expected ~78 MB, bad file deleted
- installer failed -> antivirus/UAC hint, how to run it by hand
- conda found but dead -> the exact command to reproduce the real error
- env create failed -> disk/network/antivirus causes, plus the
"env remove -n botty -y" recovery for a half
finished install
- pip install failed -> notes the env itself is fine and a re-run resumes
- python.exe missing -> explains partial env, gives the recovery commands
- find_python.bat -> distinguishes "never installed" from "install.bat
did not finish", pointing at the capture log
Added a shared ":fail" exit so every fatal path ends with how to produce a
full log for a bug report, and states that nothing else was changed.
Also added a disk-space pre-flight before env creation: under 3 GB now
fails immediately with a clear message instead of letting conda die halfway
through with an opaque error; 3-6 GB warns. The environment needs ~4 GB
plus ~1 GB of downloads.
Verified: install.bat still completes with exit 0; the pre-flight was
exercised at real, simulated-2 GB and simulated-5 GB levels and all three
branches render and exit correctly; find_python.bat still resolves; 140
tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add find_python.bat shared helper to auto-detect conda env (6 locations)
- All bat scripts now resolve paths relative to script location (%~dp0)
- Fixes crash when launching from Start Menu / pinned shortcut (cwd=System32)
- Fixes hardcoded username path in run_asset_extractor.bat
