What are the upper limits of the CAB file format?
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What are the upper limits of the CAB file format?
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The only compressed file type supported natively by Windows Installer is the Cabinet (CAB) format.
- Multi-part CABs can get the total size of a set of files past 2GB, possibly to 64K * 2GB, but no one file can exceed 2GB.
- Maximum size of all files in one folder (uncompressed) 2GB
- Maximum size of all files in one folder (compressed) 2GB
- Maximum size of a CAB file (compressed) 2GB
- Maximum number of files in a single CAB 64K
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