It's a strange requirement and you'll have to use a CustomAction. You might look at the secureobj.cpp code to see how best to do that since SecureObj can change things that were just installed. Non-trivial amount of work to do correctly.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorne Laliberte Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 14:58 To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File attributes - how to set "Archive" bit? Thanks Mike. I'm not using the attribute directly, but I do need to be able to clear or set it. This is for an internal project so I'm not sure what I can say publically, but one of the requirements is control over all of the destination file attributes. ...Lorne Laliberte > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Dimmick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:47 PM > To: Lorne Laliberte; wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [WiX-users] File attributes - how to set "Archive" bit? > > As far as I know, the Archive bit is typically only used by backup > applications to determine if a file has changed since the > last time it was > backed up. The OS automatically sets the archive bit when files are > modified. Backup tools clear it when the file has been backed up. > > If you're trying to give any other semantics to the Archive > bit, the OS will > break them. > > I believe, but haven't checked, that the Archive bit will > therefore be set > for any files created or modified by Windows Installer during an > installation. > > -- > Mike Dimmick > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorne > Laliberte > Sent: 28 November 2006 22:11 > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [WiX-users] File attributes - how to set "Archive" bit? > > Hello list! > > How do you set the "Arhive" attribute for a file? > > <File> has ReadOnly, Hidden, and System XML attributes...but > Archive is > rejected by candle.exe. > > The MSI file table doesn't offer any suggestions either. > > Do we need to use a custom action to do this? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
