Yes, what it is getting hung up on is enumerating a hundred thousand files
one by one and adding them up to a giant string that is passed on to the
MSI engine.
I looked at the RemoveFolderEx C++ implementation and it confirmed all my
suspicions, so I went ahead and took it out and created my own
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From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 9, 2014 12:11 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] RemoveFolderEx really slow on large folders
Yes, what it is getting hung up
How does rollback work with your CA?
From: Sascha Sertel [mailto:sascha.ser...@gmail.com]
Yes, what it is getting hung up on is enumerating a hundred
thousand files one by one and adding them up to a giant string
that is passed on to the MSI engine.
I looked at the RemoveFolderEx C++
@John: I completely understand why the util:RemoveFolderEx action works the
way it works, and for many applications that is the right way to go, and
that's why I had used it to begin with. Unfortunately for this particular
app it was simply unacceptable to be stuck for 45 minutes during uninstall
Is it getting hung up on something? When you uninstall with logging, does the
log show anything happening that takes a long time around where it calls
RemoveFiles?
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Hi there,
I'm using the util:RemoveFolderEx custom action to remove a folder during
uninstall that contains temporary files that are no longer needed (think of
it as a browser cache for example). Due to the nature of the application
the number of files in the folder can be in the thousands.
I
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