Re: [WiX-users] Extract files from msi (Msiexec, not WIX issue... .)

[Christopher Painter]

This open source project MSI2XML does a pretty good job of exporting an MSI database to XML and extracting all of the streams to a subfolder.  Once you've done this you can see the CABs that are stored in the MSI and extract your files from them.

 

On 6/12/06, Simon Topley <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:

Hello all,

I know this isn't really a WIX problem, however it must be an issue others have seen. "Msiexec /a" is used to create an administrative installer (i.e uncompressed into folders). This little gem works pretty well for the most part, however it never extracts files destine for the windows or system folder... At first I thought it was because of the old condition of the feature (default being 0 not 1) I've changed that and still only get the "Pfiles" folder out or my msi file...

Is there any other way to extract the files from an msi file that anyone knows of?

For fun I've included a fragment that adds a file to the windows directory, in case someone spots a fundamental problem :

    <Fragment Id="fWindowsFiles">
        <Directory Id="WindowsFolder" Name="WinFldr">
            <Component Id="cHTMLHelpExe" DiskId="1" Guid='B2975E71-5581-4E13-B850-2731A2EFA122' >
                <File Id="file1065" Name="hh.exe" src="" />
            </Component>           
        </Directory>       

    </Fragment>   

Kind Regards

Simon Topley

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