Sometime you may get this error when you are tying to upgrade SQL Server and drive where SQL Server binaries and/or shared features are installed is compressed with NTFS windows file system compression and/or encryption is enabled.
Attributes do not match. Present attributes (Directory, Compressed) , included attributes (0), excluded attributes (Compressed, Encrypted)
To solve above error:
Attributes do not match. Present attributes (Directory, Compressed) , included attributes (0), excluded attributes (Compressed, Encrypted)
To solve above error:
- Go to “C:\Program Files” and locate “Microsoft SQL Server” folder.
- Right click and select properties.
- Go to Advanced option in General Tab.
- Here look for “Compress contents to save disk space” and “encrypt contents to secure data”.
- You will find these options as checked.
- Uncheck these options and apply the changes.
- Now run the install again and it will run successfully.
