Cannot reproduce on linux here, might be a specific issue related to Windows' paths?

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Regression is for incoming release, this is affecting master, not RC2…

Blender is telling you that you have selected a file inside blenders addons directory and are trying to install it to the same location.
thanks. this is not a bug.

Marking as Incomplete until the requested information is provided.

hi, archimesh is now in the create tab in the toolshelf, thanks,
let us know if you don't find it..

The 2.76b release is from November 3rd 2015 and the add-on had around 10 commits since then. The developer daily builds from the given link in the prior post, include the latest versions of the files in the addons and addons_contrib folders.

seems to me the versioning of an addon is not the same as the version of the core (kind of a reasonable definition of what an addon is.) i thought i would probably just be wasting my time to update the core. i did try to find the addons version/history, but when i failed i decided i had performed due diligence, and someone reading the report might point me to where the addons versioning was.

Please check the latest linux version from https://builder.blender.org/download/
2.76b is an old version (as we are currently a few days before a 2.79 release)

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Please check an appropriate Blender 2.79 for your OS from the latest daily builds (from the first section on the site - do not download 2.8 builds as currently most of the add-ons are broken due to the changes to the API) if the described behavior is still present.
https://builder.blender.org/download/

@Brendon Murphy (meta-androcto) it is ok to just close these tasks in the mean time.

hi, it's a known issue that many addons are not working in Blender 2.8.
We will be addressing these issues after 2.79 release. Until then, please use Blender 2,78/9 then save your model and open in Blender 2.8.
Note that Blender 2.8 is in early development and may not be suitable for production use at this time.
Thanks

I think it is safe to close. Maybe waiting for a day or two after RC 2 release. :)

hi, is this resolved for 2.79 release?

hi, unfortunately we don't accept reports for external addons,
You need to contact the addons author and report issue to him or start a thread on the Blender Artists Forums scripts help and support.
also your screenshot was unreadable.

resolved

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Ok thanks, ill post a thing on unreal engine support relating to what you specified.

This is more like a hack than a fix… I don’t mind adding it to the addon - but this will be yet another option, and it will most certainly break some animations indeed… Correct fix would rather be that UE does not always consider empty parents of bones as a bone!

Please follow our submission template and guidelines and make a complete, valid bug report, with required info, precise description of the issue, precise steps to reproduce it, small and simple .blend and/or other files to do so if needed, etc.

The only real issue is with the path not found message that is not really clear and probably needed rephrasing or hiding it behind a debug flag.

hi, we do know about these issues and have been trying to solve the errors.
we can take another look and possibly add a warning to the addon.

Sorry ^^

Hmmpf, my bad… didn’t knew it was named that way. :|

added some small note in release notes here:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.79/Add-ons#FBX_I.2FO_.fbx
closing as resolved, i will ask @Bastien Montagne (mont29) if he's anything more to add.

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