Cannot install Flash Builder on a network home drive

Question

When trying to install in our corporate environment we have network home drives and the Flash Builder installer for some reason tries to create a directory here:
\\escfil02\homedir\deancj\..\Adobe Flash Builder 4
We noone here has permission to create a directory outside our home directory since it is using the .. directory.  Perhaps that works fine when your home directory is local on your C: drive but it doesn't work here and I cannot really change my %HOMESHARE% environment variable (or can I?)  Then I get 25 other errors but they may all be related to this first one I don't know.  They are all ERROR 15078 errors
How can I get past this?
Here is the full list of errors:
Exit Code: 7
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 25 error(s), 0 warning(s)
ERROR: 15080 Unable to create directory "\\escfil02\homedir\deancj\..\Adobe Flash Builder 4
ERROR: 15080 Command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand failed.
ERROR: 15080 Unable to delete directory "\\escfil02\homedir\deancj\..\Adobe Flash Builder 4". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 15080 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: 15078 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\configuration\config.ini" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 15078 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 15077 Unable to delete directory "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\configuration". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 15077 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: 15015 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\AMT\application.xml" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 15015 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 15014 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\AMT\application.sif" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 15014 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 15013 Unable to delete directory "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\AMT". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 15013 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: 23 Deleting Registry Key - failure. Error 5
ERROR: 4 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\FlashBuilder.exe" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 4 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 3 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\artifacts.xml" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 3 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 2 Unable to delete file copy at "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4\.eclipseproduct" Error 3 The system cannot find the path specified.
ERROR: 2 Error rolling back command ARKMoveFileCommand
ERROR: 1 Unable to delete directory "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4". Error 2 The system cannot find the file specified.
ERROR: 1 Error rolling back command ARKCreateDirectoryCommand
ERROR: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR:  - Adobe Flash Builder: Install failed

Answer 1

Hi,
You're right that we're trying to create your default workspace in the folder one level up from your roaming documents folder, and that's what's causing the conflict between our installer and your roaming profile.
This is on our radar to fix for the next release, but here's a workaround you could try in the meantime. From what we've seen with roaming network profiles, our installers will have trouble mainly if your roaming documents folder has been flattened (redirected) to the root of your profile tree. If you can have your network profile reconfigured with the more conventional home folder at the top level, and the documents folder underneath it, then the relative path will be able to resolve correctly in your network tree.
There's more info here, about how to configure your roaming profile on the server to follow the conventional tree structure:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766489(WS.10).aspx
Depending on who administers your network profiles, you might need someone in IT/IS to help with this.
-Chris