0x80070020 is SHARING_VIOLATION. Do you have a virus scanner watching the built files? That's the way this happens most often. Virus scanners are notorious for locking up compressed files. I always exempt the build drives from our virus scanners.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Lian Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 12:02 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Any documentation on WiX/Windows Installer limits? I'm not exceeding any of those statements. All files are *individually* < 2GB, and I'm setting up multiple cabs such that none exceed 2GB. I'll double check my wxs file, but I'm pretty sure I tried to verify that. I got this error when I did exceed that: light.exe : fatal error LGHT0017 : Failed to create cab '<path removed>\Temp\kq9kbz9g\client_base.cab' while cabbing file '<filename removed>' with error 0x80070020. So, it seems more like I have problems when light tries to re-open the msi file after adding the cabs in... -Alex On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:39:32 -0800, "Rob Mensching" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The FileSize column in the File table has a datatype of "DoubleInteger". > From the documentation: > > "The DoubleInteger data type is a four-byte integer value. Unless > otherwise restricted, the range of legal values is from -2,147,483,647 to > +2,147,483,647." > > Also, it is a known issue that cabinet files cannot handle more than ~2 > GB of data in a single cabinet. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Lian > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:03 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Any documentation on WiX/Windows Installer > limits? > > > Ahh...that makes sense (with also additionally experimenting by me > confirming some of that). > So, I'm still experimenting - splitting up the files across cabs/media - > but light.exe > seems to choke on the large MSI it outputs in the temp directory. > > I see this error: > light.exe : error LGHT0001 : Failed to open database: C:\<path > removed>\Temp\jjua6pkf\<filename removed>.msi > > Exception Type: System.Runtime.InteropServices.ExternalException > > Stack Trace: > at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Msi.Database.Open(String path, > OpenDat > abase type) > at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.GenerateDatabase(Output > output) > > at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Binder.Bind(Output output) > at Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Tools.Light.Run(String[] args) > > If I pare off some of the larger files (> 1GB each) it seems to be able > to create a ~2GB installer, > but it chokes when I add the next file. Any thoughts before I start code > diving in light.exe? > Is light.exe hindered at some file size? > > -Alex > > > On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:07:45 -0800, "Rob Mensching" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Cabinet files (the compression technology used by the Windows Installer) > > can currently only handle up to 2GB. Unfortunately, with Merge Modules > > you only get one cabinet. However, for MSI files you can split your > > product into multiple cabinets (separate Media elements) to get around > > the problem. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Lian > > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 7:30 PM > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [WiX-users] Any documentation on WiX/Windows Installer limits? > > > > I've been googling for the spec somewhere (as well as about the tools) > > > > What's the file size limitations of wix? I seem to be able to create the > > .msm with 4 files > > totalling 3.4GB though it seems unnaturally compressed down to 805MB. > > > > However, in trying to create a final .msi using this .msm, yields an > > E_ABORT error trying > > to access the msm file. Orca can seem to open it fine, but I'm having > > trouble trying to > > re-extract the files at the moment. > > > > So... > > > > any pointers to docs/info on limits? > > > > I'm sure I'm still doing something amiss, and I'll keep struggling on > > it. > > > > -Alex > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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