updater is crashing

[malibu43]

When I run DCS its starts to install a new updater, but then crashes. Can someone help me figure out what's going on?

 

00000.000 === Log opened UTC 2018-06-29 13:07:43

00000.006 INFO : DCS_Updater/2.9.2.69 (Windows NT 6.3.9600; Win64; en-US)

00000.006 INFO : cmdline: "C:\Users\GREGG_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\DCS_updater.exe" --apply selfupdate "D:\Games\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe"

00000.009 STATUS: Initializing...

00001.083 INFO : basedir: D:\Games\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\

00001.083 INFO : DCS/2.5.2.18736.400 (x86_64; EN; WORLD,FC3,FA-18C)

00001.083 INFO : branch: openbeta

00001.083 INFO : Copying C:\Users\GREGG_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\DCS_updater.exe to D:\Games\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe

00025.872 STATUS: Got CANCEL when asked to retry: Can't copy C:\Users\GREGG_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\DCS_updater.exe to D:\Games\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe: (32) The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

00025.945 ERROR: Can't copy C:\Users\GREGG_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\DCS_updater.exe to D:\Games\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe: (32) The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

00026.265 ERROR: Can't copy C:\Users\GREGG_~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DCS\DCS_updater.exe to D:\Games\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe: (32) The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

00029.353 === Log closed.

[BIGNEWY]

Looks like it is being used by another process,

 

usually antivirus creating the problem.

 

Try adding the DCS_updater.exe to your antivirus allowed list