cab file is a compressed file that contains the files that your installation installs on an end user’s system. Depending on your project’s release settings, these files may be left uncompressed, or they may be or streamed into the Setup.exe file. They all claim are not valid InstallShield cabinet files, neither version 3, 4, 5, or 6. InstallShield also creates an InstallScript header file called data1.hdr. Knowing they are InstallShield cabinet files, I tried using 'Universal Extractor v1.6', i5comp & i6comp and ZipScan v2.21.
#INSTALLSHIELD DATA2.CAB DRIVER#
Update: this does not work with InstallShield 12 or later. Trying to extract the files out of the data1.cab and data2.cab from the driver files. O: suppress supplementary output (start msg, comments, etc.)į: treat File Groups as directories (usefull for GUI, wrappers) R: extract subdirs/recurse and store subdirs R: replace files in cab (same syntax as 'e')Ī: add files to cab ( is optional must specify -g OR -f) S: convert multi-volume cab to a single volume (not recommended)Į: extract files (specify when specifying ) G: list File Groups c: list Components t: list Setup Types The list output is more interesting than the extract output. Microsoft cabinets begin with the magic ID 'MSCF'. InstallShield cabinets begin with the magic ID 'ISc('. The error message is 'Please insert disk 1 that contains the file data2.cab', I never get this message by double click launcher.exe. InstallShield cabinets are normally called data1.cab and have a matching data1.hdr file.
#INSTALLSHIELD DATA2.CAB DOWNLOAD#
Just download it (I picked i6comp02.zip) and then run i6comp. the setup.exe, but weird things happenes when installshield begins to extrace files to hard disk, it asks for data2.cab.
So it’s a good thing that CDMediaWorld has utilities, such as i6Comp to extract the files. I discussed this a little in the InstallShield Temp Directory Trick. That’s a bummer for those of us who need to get at the files, such as Application Packagers. My guess is that they didn’t want people fiddling with the raw files. They could have used a standard compression algorithm like. But InstallShield decided to be cute, and use their own propriety format with older versions of the Data. Some program installations use InstallShield, and the program files are compressed into Data.
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