After update to Opus 13.7 I see the Product version field does not populate with the version info for MSI type files
This was working ok in 13.6 on same system for those file types
Does it show a version number in the Properties dialog? None of the MSI files I've tried on my system seem to show a version number at all.
These are visible with 13.5.1, not visible with 13.6.7 and up:
(I didn't test any version in between.)
This should be fixed soon in 13.7.1 beta.
(Interestingly, the OS's Properties dialog never shows version information for MSI files. In your screenshot, it's just a Comment field that has been set to a string with version info, for that particular file, but not the actual version field, which could be something different. Most MSI files show no version info at all in the Properties dialog.)
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That is what Microsoft considered good design ...
An .MSI is basically a database with files and instructions for Windows Installer to execute.
The file details that are shwn in Explorer are stored outside the actual databse for quick and easy access.
The exact details are quite restricted (listed here) so the best that MSI authors can do is to squeeze other information in fields that are not designed for it.
Product Name and Product Version are stored inside the actual database.
Back in the days when I was busy with MSI's (most recently a decade ago, so things might have changed), I did try to find a shell extension that would add these details. Without luck)
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