That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you so much! Rob
On 12/07/2010 20:55, Blair wrote: > When supporting downgrades, set the REINSTALLMODE property. Specifically, > out of the following set of letters, you want either d or a: a, c, d, e, o, > p. Thus, a good value to use would be "amus". > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Hamflett [mailto:r...@snsys.com] > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 6:29 AM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Crash during RemoveExistingProducts > > How do you get Windows Installer to perform a downgrade? I find that if > RemoveExistingProducts > comes after costing, then the current files get removed and the new files > don't get delivered. > Removing the existing product removes the existing files, which affects the > actions the installer > needs to take. Before, the files were not supposed to be installed because > there were newer > versions on the system. After the product has been removed the files are no > longer there and the > ones in the downgrading MSI need to be delivered, but aren't. Is there a > way around this? The > files being downgraded are not shared by other products. > > Rob > > On 12/07/2010 14:06, Bob Arnson wrote: >> On 7/12/2010 8:17 AM, Rob Hamflett wrote: >>> Some more info. The problem seems to go away if I move > RemoveExistingProducts to after >>> InstallInitialize. I currently have it before CostInitialize, because > otherwise downgrades don't >>> work properly. >>> >> >> There are four supported schedulings of RemoveExistingProducts. Before >> CostInitialize isn't one of them. >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
