-1501: Could not compress

[BigAlbert]

Hi there ::

This kind a wierd ..

I'm trying to build my installation in 2 configuration:Comress and non compress until now I've used hard coded path and it worked smouth , now I've located the source files near the installation project and startes to work with relative path i.e. ..\..\..\ etc.

problem is that the non compress build succeds (it means that it can find the files) but the comress built fails with this error :

-1501: Could not compress "..\..\..\Installation\debugsystemdlls\MSVCIRTD.DLL" into "J:\MY_VOBInstallation\MyProject\MyProject\Product Configuration 2\Release 1\DiskImages\DISK1\Data1.cab"

and when I'm deleting this file (for testing ) and starting the build againg it giv's me the same error but with relation to another file...


Help please

[nicholas_ong]

Look in the files section in the work area, are these files showing file sizes?

[BigAlbert]

yes they are ...

[nicholas_ong]

I have gotten this error once before but I believe I ended up re-converting the inc file and re-compiling. sorry i can't be of more help.

[mjanulew]

I just had this exact thing happen. I realize this is an old post, but someone searching for an answer (like me) might still come across it.

The variable that points to your files (shown in 'Link To') does not like to have a relative path in 'dot' notation. I had defined <temp> as .\apps, and it behaved exactly like this (expanded target worked fine, one big compressed file threw this error.)

I then changed <temp> to contain a variable instead of the dot. I had all my files under the project root, so I changed <temp> to this:

<ISProjectFolder>apps

and everything worked out fine.


-Matt