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activescott / lessmsi

A tool to view and extract the contents of an Windows Installer (.msi) file.
https://lessmsi.activescott.com
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Cannot open 'MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi' (v97.0.1072.55) #173

Closed niheaven closed 2 years ago

niheaven commented 2 years ago

Describe the bug

lessmsi cannot open recent MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Go to 'https://msedge.sf.dl.delivery.mp.microsoft.com/filestreamingservice/files/4726286f-d08f-4d1c-9d86-8cc88d8ca208/MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi'
  2. Drag 'n drop this file into Lessmsi, nothing happened
  3. lessmsi MicrosoftEdgeEnterpriseX64.msi output null

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jjurkus commented 2 years ago

This is because the msi has no files in it, it is just a wrapper for an installer in a customaction table. The installer contains all the files. So you could just as well take the .exe version and see if you can extract that.

activescott commented 2 years ago

Thanks @jjurkus !! 🙌

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