Re: [WiX-users] question about removing directories during upgrade

2008-04-21 Thread Bob Arnson
Lincoln Lavoie wrote: > So, looking into this problem a little more, I think it's slightly > more complicated. The application being deployed is actually being > built with MATLAB, which has a unique architecture of deploying an > exe file along with an archive file, which is unpacked into a

Re: [WiX-users] question about removing directories during upgrade

2008-04-21 Thread Lincoln Lavoie
So, looking into this problem a little more, I think it's slightly more complicated. The application being deployed is actually being built with MATLAB, which has a unique architecture of deploying an exe file along with an archive file, which is unpacked into a sub-directory when the exe is run

Re: [WiX-users] question about removing directories during upgrade

2008-04-13 Thread Bob Arnson
Sebastian Brand wrote: > Only empty folders can be removed (). I guess you'll > have to write a custom action to remove a folder that may have files... Use RemoveFile to specify which files (including wildcards) can be removed. The only thing MSI doesn't support is "nuking" an arbitrary directo

Re: [WiX-users] question about removing directories during upgrade

2008-04-10 Thread Sebastian Brand
Only empty folders can be removed (). I guess you'll have to write a custom action to remove a folder that may have files... Best regards, Sebastian Brand Instyler Software - http://www.instyler.com On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:29 , Lincoln Y. Lavoie wrote: Hello All, I have a question about re

[WiX-users] question about removing directories during upgrade

2008-04-10 Thread Lincoln Y. Lavoie
Hello All, I have a question about removing files and directories during an upgrade. Our software creates a special directory when it is first run to hold decompressed library files. We need to remove this directory when the software is upgraded, so it can be recreated by the new version