InstallShield LE Visual Studio error ISEXP 0 Too many files???

[austin12]

I'm trying to deploy my first WPF app with Visual Studio and InstallShield LE. I'm getting an ISEXP 0 error. This app requires 32,000 pdf files in a subfolder. I did not include the pdfs in the VS project because it wouldn't accept them all.

I did add them to the InstallShield project as a folder. When I try to build the setup project it gets to Data16.cab then throws an error. Could it be too many files?

Is there a way to build the install and then have the files copy at the end?

[JohnTech]

It sounds like you are dynamically linking files in the project and there are some limitations that you may be bumping against or possibly already surpassing.


The maximum standard limit is 32767 files.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa369801(v=vs.85).aspx

For more information about creating a Windows Installer package with more files, see Authoring a Large Package.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa367767(v=vs.85).aspx

There is a maximum limit of 1600 components per feature
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa368579(v=vs.85).aspx


Limits of the CAB file format

The only compressed file type supported natively by Windows Installer is the Cabinet (CAB) format. The following limits apply to this file format.
•No one file in a CAB can exceed 2GB
•Maximum size of all files in one folder (compressed) 2GB
•Maximum size of a CAB file (compressed) 2GB
•Maximum number of files in a single CAB 64K



Data16.cab makes me think you are at about 32gb+/- of hard drive space in use, are you low on disk space ?

You can try breaking things down to more managable sizes instead of 1 giant folder of files for InstallShield to take all at once.

You may want to create a separate installer just for the .pdf's depending on the size of the rest of your application.