Package Manager > The system cannot find the file specified. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070002)

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When getting the packages for my user i am getting "The system cannot find the file specified" in some InstalledLocation. Anyone knows why this happens? Are this apps broken? I need to get the InstalledLocation, is there anyway that i can do this without the try catch block? Thanks in advance

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Principal;
using Windows.Management.Deployment;
namespace ConsoleApp19
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            NTAccount acc = new NTAccount(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name);
            SecurityIdentifier sid = (SecurityIdentifier)acc.Translate(typeof(SecurityIdentifier));
            var packages = new PackageManager().FindPackagesForUser(sid.ToString());
            foreach (var package in packages)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(package.Id.FamilyName);
                try
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(package.InstalledLocation.Path);
                }
                catch (FileNotFoundException ex)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                }
            }
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.management.deployment.packagemanager.findpackagesforuser

Have you checked package.Status before accessing the InstalledLocation? What does it return for those that can't be accessed? — Stefan Wick MSFT
– Stefan Wick MSFT, Commented Dec 20, 2018 at 1:14
@StefanWickMSFT for all my packages all the properties (DataOffiline, DependencyIssue, etc) in package.Status are false. — Ivan Valadares
– Ivan Valadares, Commented Dec 20, 2018 at 1:19

Ivan Valadares · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-04 10:08:03Z

0

Some apps that are installed in development mode throw error on acessing to installedLocation. To avoid this just check if they ate in development mode

if (!package.IsDevelopmentMode)
{
}

answered Mar 4, 2019 at 10:08

Ivan Valadares

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