Honestly, there isn't any easy way. If you want, I could spend around
US$6,000.00 of your money for you and give you a way to do it, but it won't be
pretty and I would still recommend not doing it even while I am cashing your
check.
Also, it baffles a number of us why you need to do that or why there isn't a
different way for you to achieve the same end goal.
I could get it reliably copied during InstallFiles for you, but before it is
not really possible.
If you have some custom action that needs to read that file and alter your
installation choices, could you put the file into the Binary table instead of
access it through the File table? Then you could extract it to Temp, parse it,
make whatever changes you need to do while you still can, and that file will
never need to go to WINDOWS (which should never be written to by anyone other
than the platform maintainer (Microsoft) anyway).
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 12:59:22 +0530
> From: dileep.sanamp...@gmail.com
> To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [Wix]: Copy INI file to WINDOWS folder before
> 'InstallFiles' action.
>
> Hi Blair,
>
> I have to copy the INI file which is included in MSI before InstallFiles
> action.
>
> How to do this?
>
> Regards,
> Dileep.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote:
>
> > It would be much easier to copy it to C:\Windows folder either as part of
> > InstallFiles or right after InstallFiles action. Copying it there before
> > InstallFiles is a fair bit of work.
> > What are you trying to do? Maybe we can help you with that.
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:54:05 +0530
> > > From: dileep.sanamp...@gmail.com
> > > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [WiX-users] [Wix]: Copy INI file to WINDOWS folder before
> > 'InstallFiles' action.
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > How to copy INI file in C:\Windows folder using Wix created MSI file?
> > >
> > > INI file is packaged in MSI.
> > >
> > > Before InstallFiles action in MSI, This INI file should copy in
> > C:\Windows
> > > folder.
> > >
> > > Please help me to solve this.
> > >
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