It sounds like your component GUIDs changed between releases.  Make sure all 
the GUIDs stay the same.

And check the verbose log during the upgrade, it will tell you what it intends 
to do with each component, which can help you figure out why it's doing that.

-Ari


-----Original Message-----
From: Pamela Alvarez [mailto:tammy.p...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 8:58 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Remove existing products is removing almost all files 
during Major Upgrade

Hi All,

This is the issue.. I'm developing a product that releases versions 
every month and each of these releases can be used as a major upgrade. 
For the Major Upgrade I've scheduled the RemoveExistingProducts action 
after InstallFinalize and it worked for a while.. but then one day 
without any change in the code a bunch of files started  being deleted 
and my installation end up with just the 10% of the files that were 
supposed to be in my installation path.

At first my RemoveExistingProducts action was schedule after 
InstallValidate Action but we starting to have issues with the merge 
modules of the VCRedist9.0 and our services failed to start so we did 
the change and the Services stopped having the issue.

If I move the action to be after InstallValidate again all the files get 
in place correctly but the services start to fail. I can't seem to make 
one work without ruin the other.

I really appreciate the help.

Thanks,
PameAlex

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