Correctly so, QtCmdCopy is running too early (immediate action) and
trying to write to a protected location while UAC is still at a lower
privilege level. See
http://blogs.msdn.com/rflaming/archive/2006/09/23/768146.aspx for an
explanation why the actions fail under Vista.
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:34 PM, si <sshnug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I know this thread is over a year old, but for those who find it via google,
> the custom actions below fail with "Access Denied" under Vista when the user
> does not have admin rights i.e. enters admin credentials during install.
> However it does work if you log in as Admin, or open a cmd prompt as admin.
>
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Thomas Terhaar
> <thomas.terh...@voicint.com>wrote:
>
>> I was struggling with the same issue and because I’m fairly new to WIX
>> and MSI in general I was not able to find a ‘clean’ Solution.
>>
>> What I have so far is the following, I consider this a ‘Workaround’ :
>>
>>
>>
>> <!-- Support Upgrading the Product -->
>>
>> <Upgrade Id="{B0FB80ED-249E-4946-87A2-08A5BCA36E7E}">
>>
>> <UpgradeVersion Minimum="$(var.Version)" OnlyDetect="yes
>> " Property="NEWERVERSIONDETECTED" />
>>
>> <UpgradeVersion Minimum="0.0.0" Maximum="$(var.Version)"
>> IncludeMinimum="yes"
>>
>> IncludeMaximum="no" Property="
>> OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED" />
>>
>> </Upgrade>
>>
>> <Property Id="OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED" Secure="yes" />
>>
>>
>>
>> <!-- Action to save and Restore the Config-File on reinstall
>> -->
>>
>> <!-- We're using CAQuietExec to prevent DOS-Boxes from popping
>> up -->
>>
>> <CustomAction Id="SetQtCmdLineCopy" Property="QtExecCmdLine"
>> Value=""[SystemFolder]cmd.exe" /c copy "
>> [INSTALLDIR]MyApp.exe.config" "[INSTALLDIR]config.bak"" />
>>
>> <CustomAction Id="QtCmdCopy" BinaryKey="WixCA" DllEntry="
>> CAQuietExec" Execute="immediate" />
>>
>> <CustomAction Id="SetQtCmdLineRestore" Property="QtCmdRestore"
>> Value=""[SystemFolder]cmd.exe" /c move /Y "
>> [INSTALLDIR]config.bak" "[INSTALLDIR]MyApp.exe.config"" />
>>
>> <CustomAction Id="QtCmdRestore" Execute="commit" BinaryKey="
>> WixCA" DllEntry="CAQuietExec" />
>>
>>
>>
>> <!-- These actions will run only for a major upgrade -->
>>
>> <InstallExecuteSequence>
>>
>> <Custom Action="SetQtCmdLineCopy" After="
>> InstallInitialize"> NOT (OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED = "")</Custom>
>>
>> <Custom Action="QtCmdCopy" After="SetQtCmdLineCopy">NOT
>> (OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED = "")</Custom>
>>
>> <Custom Action="SetQtCmdLineRestore" Before="
>> InstallFinalize">NOT (OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED = "")</Custom>
>>
>> <Custom Action="QtCmdRestore" After="SetQtCmdLineRestore
>> ">NOT (OLDERVERSIONBEINGUPGRADED = "")</Custom>
>>
>> </InstallExecuteSequence>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> This basically copies the File ‘MyApp.exe.config’ to ‘config.bak’ before
>> the old Version is removed and after the new Version is installed, the File
>> is moved back to it’s original Filename (thus the .bak File is removed)
>>
>>
>>
>> This works fairly well but I’m still wondering if there’s a more intuitive
>> and cleaner approach to keep configuration settings when performing a major
>> upgrade ?
>>
>> (No, I don’t want to use the Registry)
>>
>>
>>
>> Btw, I’m using WIX 3.0.3815.0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* wix-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:
>> wix-users-boun...@lists.sourceforge.net] *On Behalf Of *dB.
>> *Sent:* Montag, 7. April 2008 01:00
>> *To:* Bob Arnson
>>
>> *Cc:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] How do I preserve a configuration file on a
>> majorupgrade?
>>
>>
>>
>> That doesn’t work. A component’s condition applies to installation. So once
>> a component is installed, you can’t conditionally uninstall it when you
>> remove the entire application, which happens during the major upgrade. Then
>> you can choose not to re-install the component on a condition, but the
>> configuration files will be removed by then.
>>
>>
>>
>> As Markus Kuehni wrote in his previous post, MSI keeps doing the “right
>> thing”, which is to keep track of files and never leave anything behind. I
>> think an extended file copy/move/delete would be a nice and simple WIX
>> extension invoking the custom action and one could specify a condition on
>> that.
>>
>>
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> -dB.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Bob Arnson [mailto:b...@joyofsetup.com]
>> *Sent:* Sunday, April 06, 2008 1:19 PM
>> *To:* dB.
>> *Cc:* wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-users] How do I preserve a configuration file on a
>> major upgrade?
>>
>>
>>
>> dB. wrote:
>>
>> I tried, but using FileId or putting FileCopy under a File will delete my
>> file on uninstall and not using FileId silently did absolutely nothing and
>> didn’t show anything in the log. Basically I couldn’t get it to work. Maybe
>> a bug?
>>
>>
>> Hmm...Maybe another component with the right condition?
>>
>> --
>>
>> sig://boB
>>
>> http://joyofsetup.com/
>>
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