Something like the following should work:
<Property Id="OLDAPPLICATION">
<DirectorySearch Id="FindOldAppDir" AssignToProperty="yes" Depth="64"
Path="[ProgramFilesFolder]">
<FileSearch Id="FindOldAppExe" Name="oldapp.exe" />
</DirectorySearch>
</Property>
<DirectoryRef Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="OLDAPPLICATION">
<Component Id="A_Component" DiskId="1" Guid="A-GUID">
<RemoveFile Id="Clean_A_Directory" Name="*" On="install"/>
<RemoveFolder Id="Remove_A_Directory" On="install"/>
</Component>
<Directory Id="Another_Directory" Name="Another_Directory">
<Component Id="Another_Component" DiskId="1" Guid="ANOTHER-GUID">
<RemoveFile Id="Clean_Another_Directory" Name="*" On="install"/>
<RemoveFolder Id="Remove_Another_Directory" On="install"/>
</Component>
</Directory>
...
</Directory>
</DirectoryRef>
That assumes your old application will be under ProgramFilesFolder so
modify as appropriate.
You could condition the Feature for those components using something
like "NOT REINSTALL" so they don't run during patches or upgrades but
the searching for the old application will always happen (unless you
Condition AppSearch but that would stop your detecting of "new" MSI
setups for patching/upgrading).
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-----Original Message-----
From: Markus Karg [mailto:k...@quipsy.de]
Sent: 08 April 2010 14:20
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: [WiX-users] Searching for existing files but only once
We need to upgrade a preinstalled software. That software is very old
and knows nothing of MSI, Registry etc. We actually have to search all
local drives for the old EXE file and remove the surrounding folder. As
this is a time consuming task, this shall only happen if this is really
an update of that old version but not if this is an update / upgrade /
patch of a previous "new" MSI setup. I hope it is clear what I like to
tell.
We have no clue how to do that...
Can anybody paste a short code snippet describing an idea how this could
be done?
Thanks!
Markus
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