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Rockees
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System cannot open the specified device or file thinapp msi

Hey Guys,

Did anyone face the problem, I thinapp'ed an application which is 3 GB, created an msi. When i try to install it on Win 7(64 bit) getting an error " The system cannot open the specified device or file"

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Lakshman
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Yes i have seen this problem before. This issue is fixed in 4.7.1 and later.

(Check the Resolved Issues section of the Release notes: http://www.vmware.com/support/thinapp4/doc/releasenotes_thinapp471.html)

Kindly use the latest version (4.7.2) and rebuild the package.

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Rockees
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Hi Lakshman,

I did use the 4.7.2 version, still the same issue.

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Lakshman
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Can you upload the package.ini please

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Lakshman
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(Not sure how some of the replies got deleted. Reposting again)

This is a known issue in 4.7.2 and the workaround is to set MSIStreaming=1 in the package.ini and rebuild the package.

Make sure the entire 'bin' folder content has to be copied for deployment along with the MSI.

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kmgp
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Hi,


I did face this issue recently.


Statistics:


Total package size : 9.04 GB

Size of Bin Folder : 6.03 GB

Size of MSI :3.01 GB

Deployment OS : Win 7 32 bit


This MSI when placed on a network share and attempted to install from a network location showed me the error as mentioned in the thread. Do I copy the MSI locally to that machine and install it; installed without issues.


So, Could you please see if copying the file (msi) locally and then installing it, could resolve the issue?

GURU

Views expressed in here are my own.
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Ziegenfus
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I am currently out of the office. I have limited email access and will get back to you as soon as possible.

Regards,

Stephen Ziegenfus

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