It will work only during first install, as Rob most likely knows. During
repair, feature change, and uninstall the SourceDir location is (IIRC) the
installer directory of the cached MSI file.
It's not good design to rely on external files in the same location as the
MSI. There are too many
Phil,
your sample code works for me as well. Off to see where mine is different...
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013 10:25:03 -0700, Phil Wilson wrote:
My dumb search works just fine - I can't see what the issue is. This works
for me:
Sample.msi and thing.txt in the same directory.
Property
I searched for WiX FileSearch in same directory as MSI on google. The
first hit [1] I received [2] includes a reply from Phil Wilson
suggesting the SourceDir [3] or OriginalDatabase [4] (with some
additional parsing) might work.
[1]
My dumb search works just fine - I can't see what the issue is. This works
for me:
Sample.msi and thing.txt in the same directory.
Property Id=FILEEXISTS Secure=yes
DirectorySearch Id=CheckFileDir Path=[SourceDir] Depth=0
FileSearch Id=CheckFile Name=thing.txt
Hi Edwin,
no need to be suspicious of Depth and AssignToProperty (firstly, omitting them
didn't improve
things, nor did I expect it to) as Depth can avoid unnecessary file system
traversal (don't know how
deep the search would go if no Depth is specified but would assume that default
should
Hi,
I am still struggling with my FileSearch - no matter what I try,
it always pops up the File does not exist next to MSI message.
I have tried using SourceDir as well as the absolute path to where both
the MSI the inifile reside - same negative results.
Does anyone have an idea as to where I
-Original Message-
From: K Peters [mailto:kpet...@otaksoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:05 PM
To: Wix Users List
Subject: [WiX-users] FileSearch issues
Hi,
I am still struggling with my FileSearch - no matter what I try, it always pops
up the File does not exist next to MSI
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-Original Message-
From: K Peters [mailto:kpet...@otaksoft.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:05 PM
To: Wix Users List
Subject: [WiX-users] FileSearch issues
Hi,
I am still struggling with my FileSearch - no matter what I try, it always
pops up the File
I'm highly suspect of the values for the Path, Depth and
AssignToProperty attributes in your DirectorySearch.
The example sent by John Cooper, replicated below for convenience,
didn't set AssignToProperty=no nor Depth=0.
Fragment
PropertyRef Id=INSTALLLOCATION /
Property
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