Why is the extracting part of the download taking forever I have had it running for two days nearly and it doesn'nt seem to be making any difference, I havent saved it to any other file just default as I have read on other parts of the forum that this is a problems can you help?
You are correct that this is likely happening due to the Adobe Download Assistant not having permission to save the download to the location specified.
You can either cancel the download again and try the default location of your user folder or try the steps listed in http://forums.adobe.com/thread/981369 to initiate a direct download.
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