I am testing the tools and getting this error. Not sure what to add or install.

WARNING:root:Could not find executable ‘CPROGRA~1/SIDEEF~1/Houdini’
Workitem filedecompress20_1 failed
Workitem filedecompress20_1 failed
Workitem filedecompress20_1 failed
ERROR:schedulers.local:Workitem filedecompress20_1 failed

Which build are you currently using? If it is an older build, please update to a more recent daily build. I believe that this was fixed.

17.5.214 win 10

Bit different but still seems to fail.

Workitem filedecompress20 failed
Workitem filedecompress10 failed
Workitem imagemagick10 failed
Workitem imagemagick10 failed

If you double click on any of the failed work items and press “Show Log” it will give more detailed log information from the failed job. Can you post the logs here? It should give us a better idea why it's failing.

Indeed the details are below.

Just to double check – are you sure that you are running build 17.5.214? The path in that image contains 17.5.173.

Ah My bad! 17.5.215 now

It looks like the File Decompress nodes aren't finding any inputs. These nodes will look for input files tagged as “file/archive” and decompress those archives.

The File Pattern nodes should automatically detect the .zip extension and tag the file as a “file/archive”. I tested with 215 as well and it seems to work without any issue.

Are you overriding the file tag on the File Pattern node? It looks like your .zip files only get tagged with “file”.

Yeah see that but by default, without override, the “filepattern” gets only “file” tag.
If I override the tag to “file/archive” then i get this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “GPDG_TESTING/pdgtemp/20428/scripts/extractfile.py”, line 97, in <module>
main()
File “GPDG_TESTING/pdgtemp/20428/scripts/extractfile.py”, line 93, in main
extractFilesToDir(workitem, itemname, callbackserver)
File “GPDG_TESTING/pdgtemp/20428/scripts/extractfile.py”, line 60, in extractFilesToDir
raise TypeError(“ERROR: unsupported filetype found ({})”.format(archive))
UnboundLocalError: local variable ‘archive’ referenced before assignment
Extracting CProgram Files/Side Effects Software/Houdini 17.5.215/houdini/pdg/installation_check/input/images.zip to GPDG_TESTING/output/filedecompress2_0

It appears to be related to my user profile here. I created a new user and all runs fine. Will investigate further.

Thank you for your help, Brendon!

Just to close the topic for everyone. My windows 10 profile was corrupted and that somehow interfered with the evaluation.
Restring windows from backup fixed the problem.

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