I have been experiencing a strange error intermittently and after determing the cause to be registry related I finally I think I finally nailed down the cause/source.
I am repackaging another application-Its quite simple really, just a few files and registry entries.
The problem is related to some of the imported registry entries that have "TABs]" in the data (REG_SZ) (which are displayed as squares). I can save the project with no change. I can build and/or install and it works fine. But if I exit AI v 2.6.5 and reopen, all of my imported registry entries had all of thier "TABs" replaced with single spaces. The same is shown in the actual registry afetr I rebuild and install from the changed project. The end result is the application does not parse the registry data properly as it is expecting TABs not spaces.
To rule out my project as the casue, I reproduced this problem with a new Simple project with only one registry entry containing TABs. I can work in it all day and the TABs remain-I can build and install and the registry data is installed correctly-but as soon as I exit and restart AI-the TABs are gone (replaced with spaces). The entry originally has data (REG_SZ) like this (manually entered or imported does the same) "1 2 3 4", but after an exit and reopen its like this: "1 2 3 4". Actually after previewing this forum entry-it seems the same thing is happening in this forum-my tabs are replaced with spaces-Odd.
Any help would be appreciated-I would really hate to have to resort to manually importing a .reg file after install.
Thanks
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