[wix-users] Media Id and Cabinet question for patch.wxs

Shintaro Takechi devst119 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 08:37:58 PDT 2020


Would anybody know how I can solve these issues?

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 8:35 PM Shintaro Takechi <devst119 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> For Media attribute for patch, I read here older thread
> <http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/creating-a-WIX-small-or-minor-patch-tp7168246p7168367.html>
>  that
> > Id must be higher than any sequence number in the baseline
> msi's Media/File table.
> > Cabinet must match the original cabinet file name.
>
> My installer apparently have 33181 files, and I had 5 cabs starting from
> cab1.cab.
>
> <Media Id="33182" Cabinet="cab1.cab">
>
> However, candle receives error
>
> > error CNDL0123 : The Media/@Id attribute's value, '33182', is not in the
> range of legal values.  Legal values for this attribute are from 1 to 32767.
>
> How can I resolve this?
>
> And what cabinet should I point to when I have multiple cab files?
>


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