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sbaird

We have used both the latest versions of WinZip and 7-Zip to create the archives. The behavior is the same. Extraction works fine using either of those tools.

sbaird

I already had that set.

sbaird

We are using "Extract Archive" to extract several .zip archives containing files with Asian characters in their names. After extraction, the filenames are mangled. Please see the attached images as an example. We are using Advanced Installer version 13.1 to do this. This is a high-priority...

sbaird

Ok great -- that works for me! Thanks!

sbaird

Is it possible to localize a property that has different values set for different builds? The localization ID doesn't appear to be build specific.

sbaird

My installer is extracting several ZIP files during installation. I've noticed that this process is extremely slow. I can extract the files on my desktop using WinZip in a matter of a couple seconds, but during the install, this process takes 10 minutes! I noticed that all the extracted files and di...

sbaird

I've discovered that during an uninstall operation when using Enhanced UI, there are standard MSI steps at the end of the process that are not happening. When a file is scheduled for deletion during the uninstall, it should be deleted at the end of the MSI process. When not using Enhanced UI, the st...

sbaird

Turn on Enhanced UI. Here is a sample project for you. Notice this line in the bootstrapper log: 2016-06-22 @09:07:18-Code returned to Windows by setup:0 Notice in the MSI log that "MainEngineThread is returning 1603" but still 0 is returned on the command line: MSI (s) (E8:F8) [09:07:18:7...

sbaird

When installing silently, the MSI return code is no longer returned by the bootstrapper at the command line. The bootstrapper always returns 0. I believe this was broken by the changes made in 12.6 and 12.8 to cache the bootstrapper when running silently so that Enhanced UI would be available in mai...

sbaird

Thanks for investigating. I'm not sure that I can create steps to reliably reproduce it -- it seems to happen somewhat randomly after using the custom actions page for awhile. If I can figure out how to make it happen, I'll let you know. Maybe it's just something bizarre with my machine.

sbaird

It isn't project-specific -- it happens with all of my projects. My monitor resolution is 1920x1080 and I do not use a custom DPI size. I am on Windows 7.

I think it has something to do with having actions shared in both sequences and using the "hidden" upgrade options.

sbaird

This keeps happening -- have to restart the tool to fix, then it will happen again after clicking on a few custom actions.

sbaird

That worked! Thanks for your help, as always!

sbaird

Ok, thanks for the information. I found out we're using WinZip 12 to create the archives. We will try using a newer version.

sbaird

I am using "Extract Archive" to extract some .zip files during the install. I have noticed that the files are being re-extracted unnecessarily during maintenance mode (modify, not repair). To attempt to prevent this, I tried adding a condition to the "Extract Archive" operations,...

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