Forum Discussion

apurohit's avatar
apurohit
Frequent Visitor
10 years ago
Solved

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...
Need Help
  • 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"

     

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.