[wix-users] Heat Command Issues / Limitations

[Ven H]

Actually, the total size of the folder is actually around 1.5 GB and the
total file count is around 42,000. There are around 3200 folders included.
Is Heat capable of handling this volume? If so, are there any dos and
don'ts and is there any option / switch which should or should not be used
to harvest this huge volume of files? Also, is there a need to split and if
so, how?
Also, if there are empty folders, then will heat harvest them or ignore
them? Please advise. Also, I came across a link which seems to briefly
touch upon some of these, but completely. It will be great, if anyone can
please help.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/icumove/2009/05/31/right-corner-wix-heat-left-corner-thousands-of-files/

Regards,
Venkatesh

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Ven H <venh.123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a folder with lots of nested sub folders with files inside. The
> files include DLLs, COMs, images, C# source code, config files, XML files,
> JS, CSS, HTML, asp, aspx and so on. The size of the outermost folder is
> around 1.4 GB. When I am running Heat command on this, it does throw some
> warnings on some DLLs and COMs. Also, for a few files, the heat command
> seems enormous amount of time. I am not able to figure out why this is
> happening or how to troubleshoot this. If you have any idea, can you please
> help?
>