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

[Vijaya Shinde]

Actually our codebase is huge and it is not possible at this time to update
Wix. It will be helpful if you could suggest any options to avoid this
error in current wix version.

This is current format in wxm file.
<File Name="testdata.value.dll" Id="a_8w18b172" />

I have seen this exact same file working fine on another person's machine.
I am wondering if I am missing on setting anything that is causing this
error.

Thanks,
Vijaya

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:52 PM, John Cooper <JoCooper at jackhenry.com> wrote:

> 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.
> --
> John Merryweather Cooper
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> ________________________________________
> From: wix-users [wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] on behalf of
> Vijaya Shinde [vijaya1909 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 7:44 PM
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] error CNDL0027 : The File/@Name attribute's
> value, xxxx is not a valid 8.3-compliant name"
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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
> > 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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