Re: [WiX-users] Protect Files from beeing uninstalled

2010-10-04 Thread Wilson, Phil
-users] Protect Files from beeing uninstalled You must have RemoveExistingProducts sequenced "early". If it's sequenced late the file update rules are used, which means that only higher versioned files are installed, and data files modified after being installed (like your config

Re: [WiX-users] Protect Files from beeing uninstalled

2010-10-04 Thread Wilson, Phil
You must have RemoveExistingProducts sequenced "early". If it's sequenced late the file update rules are used, which means that only higher versioned files are installed, and data files modified after being installed (like your config file) won't be replaced. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/li

Re: [WiX-users] Protect Files from beeing uninstalled

2010-10-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:49:10 +0200 "Simon Chromow" wrote: > What I need to know is, is it possible to protect some files( for > example *.config ) > > from being unistalled or overwritten? You can mark the component as being 'Permanent' or, if the user will be changing the files, not set a GUID