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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
Can't you just use XMLFile@PreserveModifiedDate in that case?
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From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com]
Sent: 14 April 2011 15:04
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Can't you just use XMLFile@PreserveModifiedDate in that case?
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From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com]
Sent: 14 April 2011 15:04
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
Part of the prob
I have faced this problem sometime back and I had tried several approaches
based on what others had suggested. I will enumerate them here but I was not
successful in solving this (Perhaps I was committing other errors).
1. Simulate installshield's 'always Overwrite' attribute. You can try
giving
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 8:48 AM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
You can version lie, buts its usually not a good idea as the file will get
replaced every time the installation is run (it's what installshield does when
If you really need to do it then you set File@DefaultVersion to a valid file
version.
Dave
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From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com]
Sent: 14 April 2011 14:06
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy f
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From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com]
Sent: 14 April 2011 14:06
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
But won't that affect all files? I just want to overwrite this one file.
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But won't that affect all files? I just want to overwrite this one file.
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From: maksim.vazhe...@emc.com [mailto:maksim.vazhe...@emc.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:40 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
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Change REINSTALLMODE property.
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From: Kevin Burton [mailto:kev...@buyseasons.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 4:26 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
How do I mark a file 'versioned'
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Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
Rule for unversioned files is that if a file is modified after creation then it
will not be overwritten. This is with the rationale that if a user has mo
Rule for unversioned files is that if a file is modified after creation then
it will not be overwritten. This is with the rationale that if a user has
modified it then it should be left undisturbed.
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: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
I cannot seem to get RemoveFile to work. Here is my late
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Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:37 PM
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
I add but on uninstall. This gave me the same "error" do
you usually specify "both" for this kind of situation
] WiX force copy file.
The log file looks like:
MSI (s) (6C:EC) [13:54:36:297]: Executing op:
FileCopy(SourceName=dfl-c3lj.con|app.Config,SourceCabKey=FILE_ServiceApp
Config,DestName=app.Config,Attributes=512,FileSize=32206,PerTick=32768,,
VerifyMedia=1,CheckCRC=0,,,InstallMode=58982400
n [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:25 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
Yes. I run into this with text files (xml mostly) a lot. RemoveFile can go
under the same Component as the File eleme
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Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
The log file looks like:
MSI (s) (6C:EC) [13:54:36:297]: Executing op:
FileCopy(SourceName=dfl-c3lj.con|app.Config,SourceCabKey=FILE_ServiceApp
Config,DestName=app.Config,Attributes=512,FileSize=32206,PerTick=
2:05 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX force copy file.
Check a verbose log file and it should say why it is not replacing that file.
Typically because it is newer than the file you hope to replace it with.
The RemoveFile element can be handy f
Check a verbose log file and it should say why it is not replacing that
file. Typically because it is newer than the file you hope to replace it
with.
The RemoveFile element can be handy for some of these types of issues.
Not positive it's what you'll want, but maybe.
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