Verifying Contents

[Lin]

The InstallAware Wizard is verifying the contents of this setup package. This may take a moment.

I have an Install Aware Installer that acts like a wrapper and I get this message for like 10 min then it shows my installer which then opens up a different Install Aware Installer. I then get this message for at least another 10+ minutes. I am wondering if there is anyways to speed this process up or bypass it. Anything would be better than sitting there waiting for your installer just to open up for 20+ minutes.

Thanks

[Edhy]

Hi Lin,

I also noticed the same thing with my installer, specially if you have a lot files.

I would suggest trying to lower the compression ratio for your project. I do believe at the time of that message that IA is just uncompressing the setup file, so if you have 2 IA projects running from a single installation, then the 2nd project don't compress it at all, since the main one will also try to compress it.

Good luck!

[MichaelNesmith]

If you are nesting multiple setups, you should set the compression level of all nested setups to none. This way the topmost setup can do the best job in compressing everything together.

But this won't help you with the actual issue you are reporting. It seems like you are using support files that are very large. It takes a long time for them to be extracted which must happen before the main setup (and thus, the setup script) can start.

As this can be aesthetically unpleasing as well as confusing for end-users (since an extraction progress is not available for support files), you may want to use the File Bag plug-in instead. File Bag essentially provides another support files mechanism, is web media block friendly (which you cannot do with support files), and takes place in your main setup script, with full progress feedback and cancel support.

[Lin]

I must be doing something wrong because all my wrapper installer does is stick my 3 installers (.exe) in a filebag and run the correct one based on what the user chooses.

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Set Variable to NVEXE to
If Variable STANDALONE Equals TRUE
   Define File Bag : P:\\Release\\nvserver.exe, get runtime location of files into variable NVEXE
   Run Program $NVEXE$\\nvserver.exe
else
   If Variable Workstation Equals TRUE
      Define File Bag ....
      Run Program ...
   else
      Define File Bag ...
      Run Program ...
   end
end


It is still taking 10+ min for it to verify the contents of the install package for the wrapper installer and then 10+ min for the other installers also. Everywhere I had a file that I would delete after the installer was done I have changed and put into a filebag in all my installers so I don't understand why it is still taking so long and/or how to speed it up.

Thanks
Lin

[Lin]

Testing these installers on Vista is an even bigger problem. It is taking 28 min for the verifying contents dialog to even show up.

Please help, I can't be the only one experiencing this huge problem!!

Thanks Lin

[jed]

Try changing the compression level for the installers and see if that helps.

[Lin]

Sorry I should have put this in my earlier post. I have all my installers building a compressed Single Self-Installing EXE. My nested installers, the compression level is set to None and my top most installer I have the compression level set to Best.

Thanks you for the quick reply!
Lindy