Unfortunately it wasn't that easy. Because the whole process is automated and the files and media entries are created at the same time, I couldn't just remove the media entry without light complaining about missing media references.
I did resolve my issue and found that the error was entirely related to cab size and not because of the number of files, as originally suggested by the error message. I created some scripts to filter and copy the files from their source to the destination media location and then determined that 1 single cab contained around 3gb of data, most of them binary, which would definitely not compress to < 2gb. Therefore the error was misleading and your suggestion was very helpful. The app I developed to create the wxs file has been updated to separate the files into more cabs and that's okay for this stage of development. Thanks for the helpful suggestions. I hope this post helps someone else. Where do I file a bug or feature request on this issue? mikey >Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 17:02:09 -0500 >From: ecyo...@grandecom.net >Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0306 Error - less than 30K files >To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Message-ID: <20131031170209.14443tqlj1u1y...@webmail.mygrande.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; > format="flowed" > >Put in Each Cab you took out then comment out all the Cabss in the >media list, one at at a time. If the first one suceeds, add the >second until you get down to the nth one where 1 < n < 31. The one >you uncomment last will be the one that can't be built, assuming you >start at the top. That means the offending cab will have something in >it that WiX doesn't like etc. This method will also rule out the Cab >Files that work. > >Quoting fiddler mikey <fiddlermi...@gmail.com>: > >> Thanks for the response. There is no AV software on that machine and it is >> very unlikely that any single cab would be over 2gb, but impossible to say >> without trying to manually create each of the 31 cabs. I have removed >> references to a couple of the largest files in what could be the largest >> cabs (~1.5gb expected) and still receive the same error. I was under the >> impression that there is a different error message when trying to build a >> cab file over 2gb. >> >> Any other suggestions? >> >> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:14:19 +0000 >> >>> From: "Hoover, Jacob" <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com> >>> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0306 Error - less than 30K files >>> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >>> <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>> Message-ID: >>> <61d0a1ed0452f744bd7fe991abc2196f906bc...@exbox2.greenops.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>> >>> I'm currently building a MSI with over 30k files in it (25 CABS) without >>> issue, though I've been using 3.7/3.8. >>> >>> By chance do you have any AV software running on your build machine? What >>> is the overall size of the files being put into the CAB's (would any single >>> CAB be over 2GB)? >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: fiddler mikey [mailto:fiddlermi...@gmail.com] >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:01 PM >>> To: wix-users >>> Subject: [WiX-users] LGHT0306 Error - less than 30K files >>> >>> I believe I am getting an erroneous failure message when building a rather >>> large Wix project. The project contains a total of 27,654 files in it, >>> divided among 31 different cabs. However, after candle/light on the >>> project, I get a failure after about 6 minutes and no output files are >>> built. (No .cab, msi, etc) >>> >>> The error is: >>> >>> "An error (E_FAIL) was returned while finalizing a CAB file. This most >>> commonly happens when creating a CAB file with more than 65535 files in it. >>> Either reduce the number of files in your installation package or split >>> your installation package's files into more than one CAB file using the >>> Media element." >>> >>> >>> I have tried WiX toolset 3.5 and 3.6, from VS2010 and command line builds, >>> with the same error message. >>> >>> Has anyone else run into this error before? >>> Any tips for troubleshooting? >>> Is this a bug? >>> Is there a workaround? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> mikey > http://bit.ly/fiddlermikey On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:29 PM, fiddler mikey <fiddlermi...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks for the response. There is no AV software on that machine and it > is very unlikely that any single cab would be over 2gb, but impossible to > say without trying to manually create each of the 31 cabs. I have removed > references to a couple of the largest files in what could be the largest > cabs (~1.5gb expected) and still receive the same error. I was under the > impression that there is a different error message when trying to build a > cab file over 2gb. > > Any other suggestions? > > Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 18:14:19 +0000 > >> From: "Hoover, Jacob" <jacob.hoo...@greenheck.com> >> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] LGHT0306 Error - less than 30K files >> To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. >> <wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Message-ID: >> <61d0a1ed0452f744bd7fe991abc2196f906bc...@exbox2.greenops.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> I'm currently building a MSI with over 30k files in it (25 CABS) without >> issue, though I've been using 3.7/3.8. >> >> By chance do you have any AV software running on your build machine? What >> is the overall size of the files being put into the CAB's (would any single >> CAB be over 2GB)? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: fiddler mikey [mailto:fiddlermi...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:01 PM >> To: wix-users >> Subject: [WiX-users] LGHT0306 Error - less than 30K files >> >> I believe I am getting an erroneous failure message when building a >> rather large Wix project. The project contains a total of 27,654 files in >> it, divided among 31 different cabs. However, after candle/light on the >> project, I get a failure after about 6 minutes and no output files are >> built. (No .cab, msi, etc) >> >> The error is: >> >> "An error (E_FAIL) was returned while finalizing a CAB file. This most >> commonly happens when creating a CAB file with more than 65535 files in it. >> Either reduce the number of files in your installation package or split >> your installation package's files into more than one CAB file using the >> Media element." >> >> >> I have tried WiX toolset 3.5 and 3.6, from VS2010 and command line >> builds, with the same error message. >> >> Has anyone else run into this error before? >> Any tips for troubleshooting? >> Is this a bug? >> Is there a workaround? >> >> Thanks, >> >> mikey >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. 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