You oughta talk to the other fella who emailed this list yesterday. He *doesn't* want to see the USB drives as available to install upon. You might have just the opposite condition of what he has. I might suggest you search your project for Removable="no" and see if it exists. If I remove that attribute from my project then I can install upon USB, floppy, Bernoulli, thumb, etc, drives. If I remove the Remote="no" attribute then I can install on network drives. We don't want either, but I can see those are the controlling attributes for me. Your mileage may differ.
Of course, even with these attributes set to "yes" I can still manually type in the drive letter of the device (USB or otherwise) and it will go there. I have not found a way to avoid that, but apparently nobody tries that too much because I've had no reports of that from our customer base. Take care Chad -----Original Message----- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 5:47 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Wix doesn't recognize USB drive or other removablestorage We use Wix 3.0. Some of our customers complain that the installer doesn't recognize USB drive or other removable storage when installing. So basically, in "Destination Folder" page, the end user tried to change the install folder to a USB drive. But there is no USB drive showing up in drop-down list. When the end user tried to change the folder from "Folder name:" field, she got an error says: Installation directory must be on a local hard drive. I did some research and found this is not a Wix limitation, but MSI's. So my questions are: 1. Is there a way to get rid of it? I think it makes sense to allow the end user to install the software on their portable devices. 2. What's the purpose of this limitation? Security? I understand this is probably MSI's limitation. But if you happen to know the reason, please help me understand it. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
