They won't be able to say where it extracted because while different versions have had default locations, it's always been a setting the developer can override. Short of searching the whole hard drive, the easist thing to do is enable MSI logging in the registry and start the install. Once you see the logfile get created, look for the value of the OriginalDatabase property.
I have extensive experience in converting InstallShield projects to WiX and personally I reccomend treating it as a major upgrade and take the liberty of not just porting it over but also taking the opportunity to refactor the whole design. Not a ding against InstallShield just a realization that the former developer probably made some really poor choices. ----- Original Message ---- From: Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Fri, July 16, 2010 7:52:38 AM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Porting installer to WiX On 7/15/2010 8:02 PM, Wilson, Phil wrote: > If you have WinZip and you open that exe with it, you may see the embedded >files. Or the internals might be proprietary. Otherwise as I said. If you run >the exe the MSI file will be extracted somewhere, just hunt for it and >copy/save >it. > Or ask InstallShield how to do it... -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
