Conversion Error
Posted 20 October 2004 - 10:59
i started to build msi packages 4 days ago. since, i only had problems.
but this time its a major one. yesterday i started to build a msi package and it took time till today. and today i switched my screen on and an error message jumped into my face. wow more than 8 hours sitting in front of the screen for what?! for nothing. i can't deal with this problem so i hope you guys can help me.
her is the message: persist of table File to the database failed
what did go wrong??? somebody plz tell me
the programm i used to build the package is wininstall LE 2003
and the programm i want to repackage is called catia v5 and is has got more than 2 gb in 60000 files
thx for all answers
p.s. how long does it usually take to build such a package??
Posted 21 October 2004 - 11:22
Stefan Krüger
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Posted 21 October 2004 - 12:40
is this topic on this forum? if yes i cant find it. can you give me a link? i searched at google and find a microsoft article but it's not explained very well.
thx
Posted 21 October 2004 - 13:57
i have the choice between one msi package which contains all files oder one msi package and the files seperate. when i chose the second option is the problem with the 32767 files solved??
i'll try it now
and how long will it take??
Posted 21 October 2004 - 15:56
thx
Posted 22 October 2004 - 11:15
Stefan Krüger
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Posted 22 October 2004 - 11:28
thx for the link but it's the article i found yesterday. and i am sorry to say that i didn't understand it. if you could describe it in your own words or someone else it would be great.
alex
Edited by moench, 22 October 2004 - 11:30.
Posted 22 October 2004 - 13:50
Stefan Krüger
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Posted 22 October 2004 - 15:40
Posted 25 October 2004 - 20:38
The database is your msi file (an msi file is a relational database)
I2 and I4 are datatypes (integers of different lengths)
Stefan Krüger
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Posted 26 October 2004 - 08:09
another problem is the microsoft platform SDK. probably i am wrong but micosoft says that SDK is installed on a win 2k machine. but i searched for msidb.exe and could not find it. plz give me a coorect link to donwload SDK for windows 2000 pro thx
Posted 26 October 2004 - 12:47
http://www.msifaq.com/a/1005.htm
Contact Macrovision to find out if there's a way to modify the MSI schema template they are using to support more files.
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Posted 26 October 2004 - 13:27
if it works? i don't know yet. i started the conversion yesterday and it's not done yet. so again my question how long should this take??
wininstall provides another solution for this problem: split wizard http://bbs.ondemands...id=1396&posts=3
i hope one of these solutions will work
Posted 19 November 2004 - 11:00
adminstudio failed
split wizard failed
so i started with the msidb.exe again and hey it works
it's so easy to export the file table and import it with msidb.exe
i downlaoded the windows installer sdk opend the msidb.exe and it worked
now i am trying to put over 32767 files in the msi package