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I have built an uncompressed installation. There are no web media blocks. All content is offline. When I try to uninstall the software I get the message "Please locate your original setup sources to continue operation". Why do I get that message? How do I stop this happening?

Hi,


I guess you use version 8 or earlier, right? Then the only way is to make a web-build because only this one caches installation files during installation. I had the same problem and web-build helped. The only disadvantage is a bit longer installation time because of decompressing files. Uncompressed version has one more disadvantage - you cannot do multiinstance installation due the same caching problem. So, just make web build and your problem will dissapear.

Thanks Bar-BQ. That suggestion fixed my problem. It is unintuitive that a web install option is what I need in order to do a CD installation, but it works.

I am using version 7 r2. Are you saying that version 9 has extra options that fix this?

v9 does let you cache any build type you like.

I agree, it's very unintuitive, in the beginning I thought that this is script level error and I lost a lot of time searching for it. Haven't checked how it works with version 9, but I hope problem is finally solved...

"Then the only way is to make a web-build because only this one caches installation files during installation."


I've always used web-build but there are instances when the files are not cached. A small percentage of our uses have this problem and only until recently did it happen to me. The cache folders are created but are empty so during a patch attemp the 'Browse for Folder' dialog comes up. Is this a known issue?


Matt

Unless you are deleting them yourself, going back to a system restore point, or some other external factor outside of InstallAware, it won't delete your cache folders.

And again, in InstallAware 9, you can cache any build type's sources.

http://www.installaware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4588

I'd like to be able to do updates without patching. In other words, I would just like files to be updated(overwritten) and/or added to a current installation without uninstalling or patching. Can this be done with InstallAware 9? Thanks.

I've had a similar problem. In case it helps anyone, the solution for me was to recognise that the "Always cache setup sources" checkbox has _three_ states. I needed it checked, not just filled in. This has caught me out more than once . InstallAware12.

NickDay wrote:I've had a similar problem. In case it helps anyone, the solution for me was to recognise that the "Always cache setup sources" checkbox has _three_ states. I needed it checked, not just filled in. This has caught me out more than once . InstallAware12.

Thanks a lot for sharing Nick ! You solved my problem 4 years after

Dear Morgane,

I am really happy that you finally solved your problem ...
...but the same argument and solution as well, has been widely discussed with (many) other forum threads.

Regards

NickDay's solution has also resolved my issue today nearly 7 years after the original question was asked. I have to wonder what the point of the intermediate checkboxes around IA are?

NickDay wrote:I've had a similar problem. In case it helps anyone, the solution for me was to recognise that the "Always cache setup sources" checkbox has _three_ states. I needed it checked, not just filled in. This has caught me out more than once . InstallAware12.

For anyone having issues locating this checkbox, I found it under the Design Tab > Deployment (Left menu) > Build Settings > Build Type > Always Cache Setup Sources (allows easy patching without requiring access to original setup sources)

As I said previously... in reality there are lot of forum topics about the same identical argument.

Reagrds