@John: I completely understand why the util:RemoveFolderEx action works the
way it works, and for many applications that is the right way to go, and
that's why I had used it to begin with. Unfortunately for this particular
app it was simply unacceptable to be stuck for 45 minutes during uninstall
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How does rollback work with your CA?
> From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com]
>
> Yes, what it is getting hung up on is enumerating a hundred
> thousand files one by one and adding them up to a giant string
> that is passed on to the MSI engine.
>
> I looked at the RemoveFolderEx C
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From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 12:11 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RemoveFolderEx really slow on large folders
Yes, what it is
Yes, what it is getting hung up on is enumerating a hundred thousand files
one by one and adding them up to a giant string that is passed on to the
MSI engine.
I looked at the RemoveFolderEx C++ implementation and it confirmed all my
suspicions, so I went ahead and took it out and created my own m
Is it getting hung up on something? When you uninstall with logging, does the
log show anything happening that takes a long time around where it calls
RemoveFiles?
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Hi there,
I'm using the util:RemoveFolderEx custom action to remove a folder during
uninstall that contains temporary files that are no longer needed (think of
it as a browser cache for example). Due to the nature of the application
the number of files in the folder can be in the thousands.
I not
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