[nitro322]

Several people have reported, all in the last 3 weeks, problems with UniExtract crashing with the following error message:

Line -1:
Error: Unable to execute the external program.
The system cannot find the file specified.

This is an AutoIt error message, not something directly from UniExtract. It usually means that it's unable to execute a command called by a run() statement, and most often shows up (at least where UniExtract is concerned) when there's some odd path issue that prevents UniExtract from being able to see its associated binaries.

The odd thing here is the number of reports of this particular error message in such a short period of time, all of which are coming from a stable release that's now three months old. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of people reported this during a beta release or something, as I certainly see my share during development/testing, but I can't think of anything that would be causing it at this point. They're also reporting that reinstalling doesn't help, nor does downgrading to 1.5.

Has anyone else seen this recently? Have you been able to figure out the cause? If you have some info about the issue, please share here. I haven't had any luck reproducing it myself.

Thanks.

This post has been edited by nitro322: 11 January 2009 - 09:59 PM

[Gilgamesh]

Hi, i have something like this problem...

• If i double-click "UniExtract.exe" from Windows Explorer, nothing happens (no error, no execution, nothing);
  
• But if i run "UniExtract.exe" from a cmd window, it works!

I have Windows XP SP2 (Brazilian Portuguese).

If you want me to run a special debug version, just say it.

ps: thanks for your hard work

[jterplak]

Gilgamesh, on Jan 27 2009, 02:52 PM, said:

Hi, i have something like this problem...

• If i double-click "UniExtract.exe" from Windows Explorer, nothing happens (no error, no execution, nothing);
  
• But if i run "UniExtract.exe" from a cmd window, it works!

I have Windows XP SP2 (Brazilian Portuguese).

If you want me to run a special debug version, just say it.

ps: thanks for your hard work

I have the same problem here. It worked for a while, then it stopped working from Windows Explorer like Gilgamesh.

I'm using WinXP Pro SP3 (Brazilian).

Any ideias on what caused it?

Thanks for the great software.

[Bertus1]

Same crash problem here with version 1.5 and 1.6 (noinstall):

Line 0 (File "C:\Programs\Utilities\Uniextract\UniExtract.exe"):
runwait($cmd & $trid & "" & $f &'" >' & $debugf ile, $f iledir, @SW_HIDE)
Error: Unable to execute the external program. The system cannot find the file specified.

See extracts from filemon and regmon:

UniExtract.exe:4040 DELETE C:\WINDOWS\Temp\uniextract.txt SUCCESS
UniExtract.exe:4040 CLOSE C:\WINDOWS\Temp\uniextract.txt SUCCESS
dopus.exe:2740 DIRECTORY C:\ SUCCESS Change Notify
UniExtract.exe:4040 DIRECTORY C:\WINDOWS\Temp\ NO MORE FILES FileBothDirectoryInformation
UniExtract.exe:4040 CLOSE C:\WINDOWS\Temp\ SUCCESS
winlogon.exe:548 DIRECTORY C:\WINDOWS Change Notify
dopus.exe:2740 DIRECTORY C:\ Change Notify
UniExtract.exe:4040 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINDOWS\system32\ \d.exe PATH NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
UniExtract.exe:4040 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINDOWS\system\ \d.exe PATH NOT FOUND Attributes: Error
UniExtract.exe:4040 QUERY INFORMATION C:\WINDOWS\ \d.exe PATH NOT FOUND

keeps on searching, but does not find anything!