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I am working on a Win 7-64 bit machine. I have a software installation package which contains the .msi file, a CAB file and some MST files. I wanted to modify the cabinet file. So I extracted the cab file using CABARC utility.

But before making any changes to the extracted files, just for testing the utility I removed the original cab file from the current directory. And created a new cab file from the files extracted from the original cab file, again using CABARC utility.

But now if I run the .msi file, it shows the error:

ERROR:1334. The file "XYZ" cannot be installed because the file cannot be found in the cabinet file Data1.cab. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM, or a problem with this package.

But the file is present in the cabinet file I can see that. The same installer is working fine with the original cab file.

I have tried different compression types (MSZIP, LZX:<15...21>) as well, but none of them work. I have not removed/added any file in the cabinet file. Am I doing anything wrong or if there is any other information that a cabinet file stores ?

Thanks.

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    Did you ever find anything out? Commented Jul 14, 2014 at 13:41
  • Did you get the solution for the above problem? Me too facing the same issue. Commented Mar 3, 2015 at 15:55
  • @mallikgm Sorry, I couldn't find the reason for this behavior. Commented Jun 4, 2015 at 13:34
  • Same issue here. Generates msi with wix, then ICE validates OK, and validates with orca ok. If anybody knows anything please help Commented Dec 21, 2015 at 12:51
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    Still occurring in 2020. Commented May 20, 2020 at 11:34

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This error when the setup path exceed the path limit for OS. Try changing output path for installer path to some shorter path.

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Even though the path is shorter, this problem is occurring. Do you know any other reason for this?

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