I ran into this issue in the past and couldn't quite figure out what is the
cause of the problem. But looking at your re-pro steps, looks like simply
having a file being present in the "INSTALLLOCATION" root directory would force
the INSTALLLOCATION to be properly updated. I'm wondering if you go back to
your original complicated project and try to inject a dummy file to the
INSTALLLOCATION root directory, would that also force the INSTALLLOCATION
property to be updated in your original project? Just wondering.
John Leung
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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:31:20 +0100
From: MeCoco <vcotirl...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] INSTALLLOCATION wrong value during uninstall
(has the default value, not the used one)
To: "General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset."
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Hi all,
I tried to create a small sample to reproduce the problem I'm having,
and after a lot of tries I managed to reproduce it. The problem is
described extensivly in my previous email, but a summary would be: if
the user, when installing, changes the default directory (eg: from
C:\Program Files\... to Z:\Program Files\...), then on uninstall (only
real uninstall, not updates) one can see in the verbose log file that
the INSTALLDIR property is set wrong to the default value (eg:
C:\Program Files\...) and not to the folder where the user really
installed the product (eg: Z:\Program Files\...)
HOW to reproduce the problem:
1) If in the code I have the following:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="$(var.InstallDirectoryName)">
<Component Id="MyDoc.txt" Guid="6817A42D-30E7-464C-99DC-8FDBED6D70C6">
<File Id="MyDoc.txt" Source="MyDoc.txt" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes" />
</Component>
<Directory Id="Modules" Name="Modules">
<Component Id="MyLogo.txt" Guid="68C1561C-85F8-4E2F-81F4-41DDDBE35DDB">
<File Id="MyLogo.txt" Source="MyLogo.txt" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes" />
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<!-- application features -->
<Feature Id="Application" Title="$(var.ProductName) Application"
Level="1" Absent="disallow">
<ComponentRef Id="MyLogo.txt" />
<ComponentRef Id="MyDoc.txt" />
</Feature>
I get everything correct, meaning I have in the log file the following:
MSI (s) (08:24) [10:13:46:801]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding INSTALLDIR
property. Its value is 'Z:\Program Files\MyTestInstallDirectory'.
MSI (s) (08:24) [10:13:46:801]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding Modules
property. Its value is 'Z:\Program Files\MyTestInstallDirectory\Modules'.
2) BUT, if in the code the MyDoc.txt component is missing, the
INSTALLDIR property is wrong. So, for the code:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="$(var.InstallDirectoryName)">
<Directory Id="Modules" Name="Modules">
<Component Id="MyLogo.txt" Guid="68C1561C-85F8-4E2F-81F4-41DDDBE35DDB">
<File Id="MyLogo.txt" Source="MyLogo.txt" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes" />
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<!-- application features -->
<Feature Id="Application" Title="$(var.ProductName) Application"
Level="1" Absent="disallow">
<ComponentRef Id="MyLogo.txt" />
</Feature>
In the log file I can see:
MSI (s) (08:B0) [10:16:49:444]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding INSTALLDIR
property. Its value is 'C:\Program Files\MyTestInstallDirectory\'.
MSI (s) (08:B0) [10:16:49:444]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying Modules
property. Its current value is 'Z:\Program
Files\MyTestInstallDirectory\Modules'. Its new value: 'Z:\Program
Files\MyTestInstallDirectory\Modules\'.
Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I think in both cases the
INSTALLDIR should have the correct value (Z:\Program Files\...) on
uninstall.
Any tip is appreciated.
Thank you,
MeCoco
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