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

[John Cooper]

That's what I thought.  I would strongly recommend updating to WiX 3.10.

Wix 2.0 has been obsolete for much more than ten years.  It had a semantics where the Name attribute had to comply with FAT 8.3 file naming conventions.  There was a separate attribute, LongName I think, that allowed file lengths up to the .NET maximums.

The ShortName, LongName, and Name differences have been largely collapsed since WiX 3.5.
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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


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WiX version 2 (File version showing on dll is 2.0.3620.0)

Thanks,
Vijaya

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:55 PM, John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com> wrote:

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