zett42 wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Could you please shed some light on why exactly this
> behaviour occurs? Knowing something is a good thing - understanding is even
> better.
>   

MSI uses the keypath to determine whether a component needs to be updated.

> And yes, I have marked the component directory explicitly as the keypath. 
> I wanted to avoid choosing a keypath file, because in an upgrade, I would
> have to modify the keypath file every time any of the other files change. 
> The files in the directory are independent of each other (just a bunch of
> *.jpg), so it would not make much sense to be forced to always change the
> keypath file.
>   

Unless you have several thousand files -- when perf really slows down -- 
the easiest fix is to use one file per component.

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