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rcedit.exe failed - unable to commit changes

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I’m am using electron-packager 8.5.1 with Electron 1.4.13 (also tried using 1.2.2), attempting to build on Windows 10 for Windows.

I keep getting the following:

λ electron-packager . app --platform=win32 --arch=x64
Packaging app for platform win32 x64 using electron v1.4.13
rcedit.exe failed with exit code 1. Fatal error: Unable to commit changes

While I’m aware that electron-packager comes with rcedit, I’ve downloaded rcedit from the electron/rcedit repos and placed it into my path to ensure I can execute rcedit and it isn’t a pathing issue.

I can’t find much through google or the issues of electron-packager or rcedit, so I was hoping someone would have an idea on what I can do from here.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments:46 (12 by maintainers)

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nihalmpatelcommented, Oct 30, 2018

Disabling the Antivirus worked for me!

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garymcmcommented, Oct 22, 2018

Got the same error:

rcedit.exe failed with exit code 1. Fatal error: Unable to commit changes

  • Disabled McAfee’s real-time scanning and it worked.
  • Added rcedit.exe to McAfee’s Excluded Files, re-enabled RT Scan and it worked.

Hope this helps someone.

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