Extraction of installation data failed

[ohali]

Hi,
I'm creating a new setup and I'm building it for web deploy. The setup contains several web media blocks with pre-requisites and other things. One of this web media blocks contains "Program Files" and is named accordingly. When I'm testing this setup under a fresh copy of Windows 7 everything works fine (pre-requisites, installation of SQL-Server Express etc.) until the web media block "Program Files" is being extracted. After the extraction I get an error message "Extraction of installation data downloaded from the web has failed. What would you like to do?". The progress bar is at 100% and the status message is "Extracting Web Media: Program Files, <FileName>: 100% complete", so everything looks ok, but Setup does not continue.

All of my setup files are local, so there is no problem with the server. I've tried to extract the archive with 7zip manually and it works fine; the archive file is not corrupt. I've tried to exclude some files from the archive (the last ones, in case there is a problem with that file), but the result remains the same.

There is plenty of free disk space on the hard drive, so that's not the problem.

I have no idea what's going on... please help!

Regards,

ohali

[FrancescoT]

Dear ohali,

are you able to replicate your issue with a very basic sample project that I can test?

Regards

[ohali]

Hello Francesco,

unfortunately I don't think so. This is a quite big setup project and it's based on another project I've developed a couple of years ago. The source project is very similar to the actual one, and the source project compiles and runs well. (The new project compiles without problems, too. It just don't extracts the files correctly.)

All I can do is to provide you a link to the setup files in the web, where you can see the results, but the download is about 1 GB...

Would that help you with pinning down the problem?

Regards,

ohali

[FrancescoT]

Dear Ohali,

It is not so easy to investigate on whats is going on.

Let me first have access, if possible, to your setup package. Probably running it on my test environment I will able to find out something more.

Please send your link at: [email protected]

Regards

[ohali]

Dear Francesco,

I've sent you a mail with the link to the setup files a moment ago. Thanks for your assistance!

Kind Regards,

ohali

[FrancescoT]

Dear Ohali,

Perfect, I just received.

I will be back to you as soon as possible or if need further informations.

Regards.