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I have created a 300Mb installation that works perfectly as web media. From the same project I have also created a single file executable, but this consitently fails as follows:

The setup file decompresses into the temporary folder successfully but, at the file copy process, it fails with:

Error reading from file: C:\\Temp\\mia3A4.tmp\\data\\Artwork\\IFAALENTLSRE3RCSBOTAETRYOLFFFF0\\Dungeons\\CC3\\basic.txt

The reason it can't read the file is that the folder name is wrong... it's not where it decompressed the files. IA has actually placed the files in

C:\\Temp\\mia3A4.tmp\\data files\\install projects\\cc3-ia\\Release\\Single\\data\\Artwork\\IFAALENTLSRE3RCSBOTAETRYOLFFFF0\\Dungeons\\CC3\\basic.txt

This matches the project folder where the setup was saved (c:\\data files\\install projects\\cc3-ia)

Suggestions how to fix this?

Which version of InstallAware is this built with?

Built with Studio - purchased and downloaded this week

Can you try changing the output path of your build folder to some path that doesn't contain the name of the setup project (cc3-ia and cc3). For example, tell it to build directly in c:\\temp, and then try that SFX file.

I'm having exactly the same problem. This is with the latest version of Studio.

During the installation process, the files are decompressed and put into a folder that is different than the folder the installer looks for the files.

I changed the path of the output folder to c:\\temp\\[different name than project] and that did seem to fix the problem.


Michael, can you elaborate on what's happening?

Thanks,

JB

Just to add to JB's comment - the folder structure that caused the problem was the default folder structure that IA suggested.

Unfortunately, this is a known issue - the compressor gets confused by the repeating path problem described above.

The current workaround is to use an alternate output path.

We apologize for the inconvenience!