1. It is buried somewhere. I think it may be around the File Versioning topic.
2. Shipping someone else's content to a shared location is a very dangerous
thing to do. Are you using Merge Modules?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Palmer
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 12:55
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Fwd: How can I force files to be overwritten?
I have a follow-up question:
Where are the docs that say how Windows Installer sets the dates on files
that it installs?
I ask because it turns out that the version resource is not the culprit in this
case. It's sort of the opposite problem.. the versioned files are OK, the
unversioned files got hosed.
My installer picks source files from an install of another companies product.
We need to redistribute a portion of the files from an SDK that we install from
a third party. It seems that when running the third party's install (which
uses Windows Installer) the date of unversioned files is being set to the date
that the install is performed. This is obviously a bad idea, because when
these files are pulled into my installer the date stamp on them is independant
of the actual age of the file. This allows me to easily get into the
situation where I overwrite newer files with older files when I don't want to
be.
Thanks in advance.
Scott
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