Sorry Grant, no guided tours when your skiing the backcountry. You gotta be able to hold your own on this one. :-) My only clues are to make sure you understand the difference between SetProperty (51) and SetDirectory (35) custom actions. How costing works and servicing implications for install, uninstall, maintenance and patch / upgrade. If you think it through you should be fine as long as the MSI team never "fixes" this which I'm guessing they never will.
Chris Christopher Painter, Author of Deployment Engineering Blog Have a hot tip, know a secret or read a really good thread that deserves attention? E-Mail Me ----- Original Message ---- From: garnold <grant.arn...@safe.com> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Mon, September 20, 2010 6:20:00 PM Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to allow 32-bit installer to writetoC:\ProgramFiles Thanks for the replies. This sounds like a giant pain. It's horrible that I can't tell the installer the exact directory that I want some files in. It just changes it without telling me it's going to, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. Couldn't they have at least made some kind of override option? Sigh. It's so weird because I want to specify a directory that already exists, and it changes it to a directory tree that doesn't exist and creates it for me... Anyways, making a separate installer for x64 components doesn't seem like a workaround to me, because it doesn't solve the problem. It just splits my installer into two installers, which is horrible. I will attempt Chris Painter's suggested workaround. Chris: When should I schedule the custom action? Before='InstallFiles' in the InstallExecuteSequence? Does it just read in the value of the property for that directory, and then replace 'Program Files (x86)' with 'Progra~1'? The other issue I see is that in the dialog when you browse to the directory, the SetTargetPath will also change the Program Files to Program Files (x86) which will be confusing for a user... Thanks, Grant -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/How-to-allow-32-bit-installer-to-write-to-C-Program-Files-tp5544693p5552677.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
