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

[Shintaro Takechi]

Would you please elaborate?
If I have 394 files and 21 folders to update are you saying media Id can be
416? (394 + 21 + 1)

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 9:05 AM Douglas, Keith (STATCAN) <
keith.douglas at canada.ca> wrote:

> You don't need to put every file in its own Media.
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [wix-users] Media Id and Cabinet question for patch.wxs
>
> 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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