Yes, MSI has issues with encrypted drives. I thought Burn tried to
un-encrypt the PackageCache to avoid this problem. Maybe the encryption bit
is being inherited so it gets reapplied when the permissions are propagated.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Wesley Manning <wmann...@dynagen.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had a customer who ran into problems installing my burn package on
> Windows 7 Professional x32bit.  Turns out files were being encrypted in the
> %ProgramData%/Package Cache.  This was causing the MSI file there to fail.
>   The user got the program to install by installing the MSI files manually
> from the desktop (after he unencrypted then since they were encrypted on
> the desktop as well).
>
> Seems MSI files have problems when they are encrypted.  I did a fair bit
> of online searching for MSI file encryption problems but could not find out
> any info other than a blog where a fellow was having the same problem and
> found unencrypting the MSI files solved the problem.  Did anybody else run
> into this problem?
>
> Wes
>
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