You need to give RemoveFile the name of the file it's supposed to remove. Something like this: <RemoveFile Id="remLicense" Name="license.dat" On="uninstall" />
Rob srinivas nomu wrote: > I am now successfully call an exe to write a license.dat file. However, > I have a small problem. > 1) When I unistall how should I delete manually this file?. > I used this code, since I have to write to this directory, I need to > create a directory in wix itself under Appluication data. Now when > Uninstall since it cannot delete the top folder "qsystems" as it will > have the license file. So, it cannot delete the top level folder. Since > there is no reference for this file that has created by the extrenal > program, how should I delete this file. The following code does not work. > > <Directory Id="LicenseDir" Name="SourceDir" > > <Directory Id="DOCS" Name="DOCS" LongName="Documents and Settings"> > <Directory Id="Allusers" Name="AllUsers" LongName="All Users"> > <Directory Id="ApplData" Name="ApplData" LongName="Application Data"> > <Directory Id="QSI" Name="Qualtech" LongName="qsystems"> > <Component Id="test" Guid="06BA0010-75AC-459D-8B18-2304B2504D8B" > SharedDllRefCount="no" KeyPath="no" NeverOverwrite="no" Permanent="no" > Transitive="no" Win64="no" Location="either"> <CreateFolder/> > <*RemoveFile I*d='test' On='uninstall' /> > <*RemoveFolder I*d='QSI' On='uninstall' /> > > </Component> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48252/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC>, > > not web links. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers > <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48252/*http://mobile.yahoo.com/mobileweb/onesearch?refer=1ONXIC>, > > not web links. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users