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apurohit
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago
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Error "Destination folder path cannot exceed 100 characters." prevents install of Power BI Desktop

Hi all,   When I uninstalled and then re-installed PBI Desktop, I got the following message: "Destination folder path cannot exceed 100 characters."   This is with _any_ destination path includin...
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  • ShengLiu's avatar
    ShengLiu
    10 years ago

    Hi kento/apurohit, could you try something for me? Could you try running the following command, replacing the PBIDesktop.msi with your path of the msi file. Please let me know if it solved your issue.

     

    msiexec /i "PBIDesktop.msi" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1"

     

kento's avatar
kento
New Member
10 years ago

Hi,

 

A colleague of mine is having the same problem. We tried earlier install versions on his machine and it occurs on all previous versions of PBI Desktop as well. We are currently having IT check his machine for possible conflicts. Screen shot is below.

 

Did you happen to find a solution?

 

ShengLiu's avatar
ShengLiu
Microsoft Employee
10 years ago

Hi kento/apurohit, could you try something for me? Could you try running the following command, replacing the PBIDesktop.msi with your path of the msi file. Please let me know if it solved your issue.

 

msiexec /i "PBIDesktop.msi" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1"

 

  • Yaman's avatar
    Yaman
    Frequent Visitor
    10 years ago

    This fix worked for me.

    Many thanks!

  • apurohit's avatar
    apurohit
    Frequent Visitor
    10 years ago

    Thanks ShengLiu. This worked for me too. I have accepted it as the solution.

    • Ammar's avatar
      Ammar
      New Member
      10 years ago

      Thanks alot all of you guys, I am trying to add powerquery 2.29.4217.1861 (64-bit) [en-us].msi to the excel / office 2013, to attend the new course about data interpretation. the msi file is on my desktop downloaded and that error messages appears. this solution how it is implemented by steps.

      Yours,

      A first time joiner to your forum.

      Ammar

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    10 years ago

    Same error but your fix worked for me.  Seems to be an issue that needs to be addressed in future updates.  I would hate to have to look up this fix every time going forward.

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      10 years ago

      Even downloading the updates I get this error.  Is anyone listening?  This needs to be fixed.

  • stephen1985's avatar
    stephen1985
    New Member
    10 years ago

    HI,

     

    This solution does not seen to work for me, unless i am doing something wrong, should i replace the "PBIDesktop.msi" with the file path of the installer file?

     example:

    msiexec /i "C:\Users\stephen.zacharia\Downloads" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1"

     

     

    msiexec /i "PBIDesktop.msi" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1"

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      10 years ago

      Stephen,

      Make sure you are in the directory before you do anything.  Meaning when you are in the CMD prompt, access the folder where the PBIXDesktop.msi file is located.

       

      Example, when I load up CMD, it default to C:\Users\username

      So Step one is to go to my downloads folder where that msi file is located.  In the CMD screen I type in "cd downloads"  the CMD screen now shows that I am in C:\Users\username\Downloads

       

      NOW I type in msiexec /i "PBIDesktop.msi" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1"      Exactly that way with the quotes.  You can see that you dont include the folder path because you are already in it when you typed the command.  

       

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      10 years ago

      try

      msiexec /i "C:\Users\stephen.zacharia\Downloads\PBIDesktop.msi" WIXUI_DONTVALIDATEPATH="1"

  • pleromah's avatar
    pleromah
    New Member
    9 years ago

    Worked for me too. Thanks a lot!