@John Ludlow: Ok I was following what I found in a wix email chain by Chad
Peterson from 2011. The post is below as well as the url to the entire email
chain.
Another option is to use the <RemoveFile/> element tied to the same
Component as your <File/> element. This will always clear out the
existing file prior to the current install writing the new one. Works
for rollback and uninstall.
<Component Id="Filetxt" DiskId="1" Guid="<someguid>">
<RemoveFile Id="Remove_Filetxt" Name="File.txt" On="install" />
<File Id="Filetxt" Name="File.txt" Source=".\data\File.txt" />
</Component>
The RemoveFiles action is always scheduled before the InstallFiles
action by default, so as long as you don't change that sequence in
InstallExecuteSequence then it should work fine. I consider this the
functional equivalent of the InstallShield "Always Overwrite" setting.
http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Using-wix-how-to-always-overwrite-a-file-td6904118.html
@John Cooper: I am thinking we had some troubles with multi instance and
companion files in the past and have since removed them all from any of our
installs, but I wasn't around for that conversation and nobody seems to
remember why so I will give that a try thank you. Speaking of that though would
that violate the Component rules for a minor upgrade?
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