luanvieiralima
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The CAB file size is limited to 2GB

Thu Oct 28, 2021 12:10 am

Hey guys.

First I would like to apologize for English. I used google translator. I'm new to the forum.

I have a large project to create in advanced, but the same error message is always displayed.

I made a print of the configuration I'm using, and the size of the folder I'm creating in the project.



Error message:
The CAB file size is limited to 2GB, you can`t have more than 64K files in a CAB and you can`t compress files that are larger than 2GB

Version:
Advanced Installer 16.5

Folder Size:
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Advanced configuration:
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Liviu
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Re: The CAB file size is limited to 2GB

Thu Oct 28, 2021 9:03 am

Hello and welcome to Advanced Installer forums,

This happens because the Operating System does not support CAB files larger than 2GB and thus, no single MSI larger that 2GB can be created.

Advanced Installer supports packing files larger than 2GB only if the "Place files unpacked next to the MSI database" option or LZMA compression is used.

With that being said, you can check the "Archive installation files using LZMA compression" option in the "Builds" page.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Liviu
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