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apurohit
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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
    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"

     

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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"

 

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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.