@MutantWizard, I found a solution. You can avoid that error by using the new BotEngine console app from https://botengine.blob.core.windows.net/blob-library/by-name/2019-10-10.BotEngine.Console.zip
I implemented multiple improvements to help with this scenario:
- Compression of the downloaded data. The size of the large file which was the bottleneck and led to the crash is now reduced to 13 MB. (This file will again be cached in the file system, so only needs to be downloaded the first time a bot is started on a Windows user account).
- Increased timeout of the download process to 4 minutes. With the older version of the app, the download failed after 100 seconds, leading to the error message you saw.
It should be sufficient to use the new executable file; the other parts of the guide still apply as before.