Extracting files from merge module
- by Mystagogue
All I want is a command-line tool that can extract files from a merge module (.msm) onto disk. I'm trying msidb.exe and orca.exe The documentation for orca states:
Many merge module options can be
specified from the command line...
Extracting Files from a Merge Module
Orca supports three different methods
for extracting files contained in a
merge module. Orca can extract the
individual CAB file, extract the files
into a module tree and extract the
files into a source image once it has
been merged into a target database...
Extracting Files
To extract the individual files from a
merge module, use the
... -x ... option on the
command line, where is the
desired path to the new directory
tree.
The specified path is used as the root
path for the extracted files. All
files are extracted from the CAB file
embedded in the module and placed in
the specified path. The directory
layout for the extracted files is
based on the directory tree of the
merge module.
It mostly sounds like exactly what I need. But when I try it, orca simply opens up an editor (with info on the msm I specified) and then does nothing. I've tried a variety of command lines, usually starting with this:
orca -x theDirectory theModule.msm
I use "theDirectory" as whatever empty folder I want. Like I said - it didn't do anything.
Then I tried msidb, where a couple of attempts I've made look like this:
msidb -d theModule.msm -w {storage}
msidb -d theModule.msm -x {stream}
In both cases, I don't know what to insert for {storage} or {stream} to make it happy - I don't know what those represent.
Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong with the command line options? Is there any other tool that can do this?
