Weird Exiftool errors

[ribtoks]

Hi

I'm using latest "production" Exiftool on Windows (in the Appveyor environment) and I'm getting weird errors from time to time which make my builds crash.

The errors are as following:

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Archive/Zip/ZipFileMember.pm did not return a true value at C:/Perl/lib/Archive/Zip.pm line 269.\r\n
Compilation failed in require at -e line 165.\r\n

I'm tracking such errors and just restarting exiftool and everything is fine. The problem is that this error definitely happens when I give exiftool process too small amount of time to run (like 3 seconds) and on the first run it unpacks perl and friends. But now it's 30 seconds and should be enough, but it still fails so I suspect some bugs in recent versions of Exiftool.

[StarGeek]

This will probably require Phil's attention but it may be a while as he's currently on vacation.

[Phil Harvey]

Do you get this error when performing the same operation from the command line?

Also, you may try deleting the temporary files from C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Temp in case the file was corrupted when extracting from the package.

And it would be useful to know if you have this problem with other versions of ExifTool.

- Phil