Please locate your original setup sources to continue operat

colin_priest · Postby **colin_priest** » Thu May 07, 2009 10:54 pm

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?

Bar_BQ · Postby **Bar_BQ** » Fri May 08, 2009 4:58 am

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.

colin_priest · Postby **colin_priest** » Fri May 08, 2009 5:56 am

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?

MichaelNesmith · Postby **MichaelNesmith** » Fri May 08, 2009 7:04 am

v9 does let you cache any build type you like.

Bar_BQ · Postby **Bar_BQ** » Mon May 11, 2009 4:11 am

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...

Matt68 · Postby **Matt68** » Mon May 11, 2009 12:25 pm

"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

MichaelNesmith · Postby **MichaelNesmith** » Mon May 11, 2009 2:12 pm

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

Matt68 · Postby **Matt68** » Tue May 12, 2009 6:38 am

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.

NickDay · Postby **NickDay** » Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:01 am

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.

MorganeJ · Postby **MorganeJ** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:18 am

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

Postby **FrancescoT** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:42 am

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

GFXDude2010 · Postby **GFXDude2010** » Tue Feb 23, 2016 9:42 am

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)