hey guys, anybody has found some way to silently install Adobe After Effects 6.5 or Adobe Audition 1.5?

Since After Effects' instaler is a .msi file I haven't found a way to register it

Audition uses a Install Shield installer but it don't use a abcpy.ini file like the other Adobe's softwares and the -s switch don't work...
any help?

Adobe Audition 1.5 is an MSI, too. Look in your %TEMP% after running the EXE.

Sorry to gravedig, but this is the first thread I was able to find regarding the silent install of Audition.

My ?: is there a way to pass along the serial # during the silent install?

Hi!!

I had this problem with Adobe Audition, too.
Well well, I tried quiet some methods to silently install Audition, but with no real luck. So I just thought, if you can't silent it, AutoIt-it!

I made a little script, which works perfectly for me. The file is attached, maybe you need to modify some of the dialog names for different languages or so.

Have fun and let me know if it worked!!

C Ya!!

Thanks. I haven't really spent much time looking at AutoIt, so I guess this is the motivation I need. Thanks!

Adobe Audition 1.5


1- Run your EXE.

2- Stop at the first setup screen.

- Go to Start --> Run. Type %TEMP%. Hit Enter.
- In your Temp directory, you find a folder named like _is5F or whatever.
- Inside _is5F, there's "Adobe Audition 1.5.msi"!
- Copy your MSI from %TEMP%\_is5F\Adobe Audition 1.5.msi to your XPCD:

X:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Install\Audition\Audition.msi (renamed)


Your batch:

Thanks, Mazin. That's a huge help.

You're welcome.

Still, there's another way using your encrypted serial from the registry (via a reg file) along with /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress as above.





Still, pharao2k's script is helpful, too.

Yea, I'm still contemplating what I want to use. I love silent installs because you don't have to see it being installed. But at the same time, with AutoIt I can create a script for every application instead of hunting down all of the switches.

Hi, I'm New to the board but not of your standard when it comes to these things. I have a serial for Adobe Audition 1.5, can you spoon feed me how to get it registered. Thanks

gave batch file a whirl...didn't work...same old forking problem, anyone else receive such trouble? (see image 2)
also getting bloody data execution shutdown message at end of ANY install with Audition 1.5. which may or may not be issue if added to windows setup (usin' xp right now).
Adobe just purchased this from the original coders_____ MR. BIG BUKS
post solution if found, no auto it please....
THX!

This post has been edited by thuun derboy: Oct 10 2005, 09:56 AM

You have to shut off DEP before installing (I believe). There was a big discussion about it on the Adobe Audition Forum
When you go to the link, click on "Log in as a Guest" to see the topic discussion. Read messages 5 - 13.

Check it out, it may help you decide if you need to shut off DEP temporarily to get this bugger installed.

Homeskillet

This post has been edited by homeskillet: Oct 13 2005, 04:55 PM

I messed with this for awhile, finally got a silent install to work.
What I did was the following:

1) I use AdminStudio, so I did a multistep snapshot. took the inital snapshot.
2) Installed Audition 1.5 all the way thru
3) Took the second snapshot.

Once that was done, I ran it thru the repackager to get the MSI. If you do nothing else, you'll get the DEP that everyone else was encountering and the program wont run. To get around this:

1) Exported the following from the machine I installed Audition on:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{86EF9FC4-F209-4520-B7E1-C7FF0EEBDFFF}
2) using AdminStudio's Editor, I added that the to the MSI that I had created.

From there, I distributed it to the machines I needed thru SMS. I made sure to have SMS reboot after the program was done installed. After it rebooted I was able to run the program fine.

Hope this helps.

just gave this ONE more shot before altering original MSI...
stupid adobe! what the @$#!?&%?!
made sure to reboot...nada, same error..."unknown"
guess it's time to break out a repacker, though,
SOMEONE must have a simple solution somewhere.
_anybody?!
thx.

This post has been edited by thuun derboy: Oct 15 2005, 08:31 PM

I made a silent switchless installer of this one. What a pain in butt too. First I had to tweak the msi file so that it would let me make AIP and while I was in there I nuked all of the foreign language parts. You need to go under custom actions I believe and there's an action under Admin Install to delete. I don't remember the name of it now, but when you're in there it's obvious which one to delete.

Then I found that you must pass the serial on the command line, you can't put it in the msi file or even pass it through using an mst file. So my last issue was the dreaded DEP problem. Well I discovered that if I call the switchless silent exe I made from svcpack.inf, that it installs without any problems. Apparantly DEP isn't yet active at that stage of setup. Here's the best part - the install exe file is only 15MB.

On Adobe Audition 2.0 i get the "you must restart your computer" etc dialog,
I've tried using the Adobe Audition 2.0.msi /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress switches which will install ok except i get the restart dialog, Any idea's anyone please ?

tnank's

This post has been edited by ironside: Jan 24 2006, 11:52 AM

Pharao2k, please if you can post more detailed instructions for the Auto-It install I would appreciate it. I'm not sure how to do this.. Thanks!!

not have the autoit script for the adobe audition 3.0? the 1.5 is very old! thanks

or

is not enough?

Any not work, i was try.... but, for it install normaly is need to use the setup.exe
because this i need the autoit script!

bye