error code -33

[BrentSchenk]

I'm trying to build a project.  The first time it asks if i have the distributions it lists a project i had previously had worked on but have since deleted and dont have access to so i answer no to if i have the listed distributions.  After that it lets me tell it what distributions i do have and i check all that i do and go forward.  i then get the following message without any prompts to help the builder find the distributions and it errors out.

CDK_Build_Invoke.vi.ProxyCaller >> CDK_Build_Invoke.vi >> CDK_Engine_Main.vi >> CDK_Engine_Build.vi >> NI_MDF.lvlib:MDFDistCopyList_VerifyItemPresent.vi

Loading product deployment information

Loading product deployment information

Adding files to installer

Done adding files

Preparing to build deployment

Copying products from distributions

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*** Error: Input data from a source data file has errors. (Error code -33)

Error in ini file: D:\Distributions\MeasurementStudio 8.6\nidist.id

*** End Error Report

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*** Error: Input data from a source data file has errors. (Error code -33)

Error in ini file: D:\Distributions\MeasurementStudio 8.6\nidist.id

*** End Error Report

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*** Error: Input data from a source data file has errors. (Error code -33)

Error verifying distribution present: National Instruments Device Drivers - February 2009, Disk 1

Error in ini file: D:\Distributions\MeasurementStudio 8.6\nidist.id

*** End Error Report

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Done building deployment

any help on this would be great as it is holding me up 

i also found another post explaing to goto the registry and change the path of distributions with bad paths to the CD-ROM root directory so that it would prompt if it wasnt found, well i found a bunch of distributions in the registry named after my previous project.  is it okay to just delete these from the registry entirely?

[BrentSchenk]

i think i have figured this out as i went to the add/remove programs in control panel and then did a repair and selected all the products i thought i packaged with that old project and hopefull that repairs the registry keys if anyone was curious enough to know.  Ill mark solution if this works

[BrentSchenk]

this didn't fix it

[Dennis_Knutson]

What type of project are you trying to do? Create an exe, dll, installer? You've specified Measurement Studio which has nothing to do with LabVIEW. Is this a LabVIEW project you are trying to create or another language?

[BrentSchenk · Accepted solution]

it's a labview project and i am building an installer but i actually gave tech support a call after i had enough headaches for the day (might as well if im paying for a service agreement) and it turned out that because i had installed an application with these features prior to actually installing my development suite on this computer the distributions pointed to that old installer from that app.  I just had to reinstall each component (488.2, VISA Runtime, and various NI System Components).  Lesson today:  make sure to install things in the correct order or at least remember when things got installed.  Thanks for replying in any case, this probably wasnt the appropriate board but i wasnt sure which one was.