[wix-users] error CNDL0027 : The File/@Name attribute's value, xxxx is not a valid 8.3-compliant name"

[John Cooper]

Which version of WiX?  There has been significant change in the file name attributes over the years.

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John Merryweather Cooper
Senior Software Engineer | Integration Development Group | Enterprise Notification Service
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® | Lenexa, KS  66214 | Ext:  431050 |JoCooper at jackhenry.com



-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Vijaya Shinde
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 5:45 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: [wix-users] error CNDL0027 : The File/@Name attribute's value, xxxx is not a valid 8.3-compliant name"

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Hello everyone,

We are trying to generate msi file. There is command candle.exe which uses wxm file. wxm file has list of file names xxxx .

We are facing below error when tried to run candle.exe.

candle.exe  error CNDL0027 : The File/@Name attribute's value xxxx is not a valid 8.3-compliant name.

where xxxx is name like 'testdata.value.dll'

We tried below steps to disable 8dot3 but it did not resolve the issue.

   - Navigate to the following registry key:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
   - Locate NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation and change the value to 3 (We also
   tried to set it to 1)


*Reference* : https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc778996.aspx

Please inform us if there are any options that we can try or anything you can help us with.

Thanks,
Vijaya

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