DB Installation Issue: Binary files folder (bin) is missing in downloaded zip for MongoDB (Windows 64-bit)

Question

I downloaded the MongoDB for Windows 64-bit from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads. File name: mongodb-src-r3.0.3.zip

However, the zip folder doesn't have a bin folder & no .exe files to use for installation (as given in the installation steps).

The below commands say that I use Windows 7 64-bit architecture. wmic os get caption wmic os get osarchitecture

Even tried using the .msi (Installation Package) given in the same downloads page. It doesn't give any error. But still the bin folder is not created to test MongoDB (mongod.exe).

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

I also faced the same problem as @ArcherGilly told to install again and select the custom options and by doing this finally I found the bin folder with other txt file like license

C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\4.0 -> Previously there were only two folders

• data
• log

and Now along with the above two folders, there is bin folder along with 4 more files

• LICENSE-Community.txt
• MPL-2
• README
• THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES
• THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.gotools

Answer 2

I had the same problem, but once I used the .msi installer and selected 'custom', instead of 'complete', it installed the /bin folder.