STORED entry missing size, compressed size, or crc-32 Message During Build

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Summary

This article discusses receiving a STORED entry missing size, compressed size, or crc-32 message during build, in the non-verbose build debug output.

Symptoms

The non-verbose debug output has a STORED entry missing size, compressed size, or crc-32 message:

?<InstallResources status="FAILURE">
<action type="TestBillboard.png" name="TestBillboard.png">
<source>C:\Users\Test\Desktop\BillboardTest\IA2017SP1\BillboardTest\</source>
<description>STORED entry missing size, compressed size, or crc-32</description
</action>
</InstallResources>

Cause

The build process fails to find a billboard image in the location referenced by the project.

In this case, here:

C:\Users\Test\Desktop\BillboardTest\IA2017SP1\BillboardTest\

Resolution

Make sure to place a copy of the billboard image:

<action type="TestBillboard.png" name="TestBillboard.png">

in this case:

TestBillboard.png

in this location:

C:\Users\Test\Desktop\BillboardTest\IA2017SP1\BillboardTest\

then rebuild the project.

Additional Information

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