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