An error occurred extracting the archive

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Hey guys. I have been trying to install OSMC onto my new Samsung evo+ MicroSD Card. Every single time I =get to the end of the installer it comes up with this message “An error occured extracting the archive! Please consult the logfile.”

I have found a bunch of different posts with this error but nothing I have done seems to fix the issue. The card doesn’t have write protect and I have ran the installer as administrator.

Here is the logfile:

Fri Jan 5 19:19:21 2018 OSMC Installer running on Windows
Fri Jan 5 19:19:21 2018 Detected locale as en_US
Fri Jan 5 19:19:21 2018 Attempting to load translation for locale en_US
Fri Jan 5 19:19:21 2018 Could not load translation!
Fri Jan 5 19:19:21 2018 Resolving a mirror
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Resolved mirror to Index of /osmc/osmc/download
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Enumerating supported devices
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Added the following devices
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Vero 4K
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Vero 2
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Vero
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Raspberry Pi 1 / Zero
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Raspberry Pi 2 / 3
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Apple TV
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Checking for updates
Fri Jan 5 19:19:22 2018 Checking for updates by downloading http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/download//installers/latest_windows
Fri Jan 5 19:19:23 2018 Acquired mirror file
Fri Jan 5 19:19:23 2018 No new update is available
Fri Jan 5 19:19:28 2018 The user has selected English as their language
Fri Jan 5 19:19:28 2018 The user has selected Raspberry Pi 2 / 3 as their device
Fri Jan 5 19:19:28 2018 Attempting to download device versions file http://ftp.fau.de/osmc/osmc/download/installers/versions_RBP2
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.10-1
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.08-1
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.07-1
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.06-1
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.05-2
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.04-1
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.03-1
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.02-2
Fri Jan 5 19:19:29 2018 Found a build called 2017.01-1
Fri Jan 5 19:19:34 2018 The user has selected a local image for Raspberry Pi 2 / 3 with file location: file:///C:/Users/guita/OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20170129.img.gz
Fri Jan 5 19:19:34 2018 Disabling internal install for device Raspberry Pi 2 / 3 as it does not support it
Fri Jan 5 19:19:35 2018 SD installation selected
Fri Jan 5 19:20:06 2018 Wireless network configured with SSID iiNet 130Mbps
Fri Jan 5 19:20:06 2018 Installing usbit32 imaging binary to temporary path
Fri Jan 5 19:20:06 2018 Installing empty boot sector to temporary path
Fri Jan 5 19:20:06 2018 Installation was successful
Fri Jan 5 19:20:06 2018 Enumerating imageable devices for Windows
Fri Jan 5 19:20:06 2018 New disk device entry created with entry point G:, 30528MB free space and label
Fri Jan 5 19:20:08 2018 Device selected: 9 G:\ 30528MB
Fri Jan 5 19:20:12 2018 EULA has been accepted
Fri Jan 5 19:20:12 2018 Extracting C:/Users/guita/OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20170129.img.gz

Thanks -Mike

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Did you try to format the card with SD Formatter?
Did you check the card with H2testw?
Did you disable virus scanner that might jump in?

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Also try manually extracting OSMC_TGT_rbp2_20170129.img.gz to C: with winrar.
Do you have enough disk space?

As above test card with H2testw to make sure its not a fake.

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I have worked it out. I am not sure what the actual problem was. I was trying to use a local file to install OSMC which I downloaded from the official site. I ended up letting the installer download the latest version and it seemed to work.

Thanks for the reply anyway.