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Application installer file is damaged

We got an email this morning from one of our users stating that he is getting an error message ‘The application could not be installed because the installer file is damaged. Try obtaining a new installer file from the application author’, when he tries to install PaySketch on his computer. So we mulled over application installer logic quite a few times and really didn’t get any gray area that could have caused this to happen. Concluding that there was nothing wrong with our installer, we dug into a few things and seems like the problem has no relation with the installer file at all! There are a couple of possible reasons due to which users get this error message (not just with ours, but probably with any other Adobe Air application installer). Here they are:- Read more