Re: [WiX-users] Accessing Vista VirtualStore from CustomAction

2010-04-15 Thread Francesc Castells
Ok...I was afraid of that :) but it's good to know I should change direction. Many thanks for your help, Francesc On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Sascha Beaumont wrote: > Unfortunately, no. > > You're going to need to redesign your data migration process, possibly > requiring a manual step

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing Vista VirtualStore from CustomAction

2010-04-14 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Unfortunately, no. You're going to need to redesign your data migration process, possibly requiring a manual step or separate tool that runs pre or post install as the user. Sascha On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Francesc Castells wrote: > Thanks Sascha, > >From your comment, I studied wh

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing Vista VirtualStore from CustomAction

2010-04-14 Thread Francesc Castells
Thanks Sascha, >From your comment, I studied what is going on in the installer with the impersonation, etc...and you'll probably scream here, but the thing is: 1- The installer is "per machine" and updates a "per user" installation (this can't be changed) 2- It runs elevated, with admin rights, ot

Re: [WiX-users] Accessing Vista VirtualStore from CustomAction

2010-04-13 Thread Sascha Beaumont
Most likely your CA is running deferred and with elevated privileges, try setting CustomAction/@Impersonate="true" On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Francesc Castells wrote: > Hi, > I have an installer that upgrades an old program and imports the data. To do > that, it opens the old program's co