Ah, yes I see <CopyFile> now (I assume that's what you're referring to.)
I think that should work, I'll give it a shot.
Thanks again.
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From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:59 AM
To: Rowland, Chris
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing locally hosted files
Well, you could probably still use that search to verify that the files
DO exist and base your launch conditions off of that. Then you could
use the <FileCopy /> to move the files. I think, however, that with
this they will not be removed upon uninstall.
On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
wrote:
I don't want to set my directory to the current location of the files on
their machine, rather I want to copy those files to the location they
choose to install the software.
So say the required files were in c:\myfiles\ and they chose to install
to c:\program files\installdir\ then I want to basically have the effect
of "copy c:\myfiles\filex.txt c:\program files\installdir\filex.txt"
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From: Levi Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:48 AM
To: Rowland, Chris
Cc: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Installing locally hosted files
You could do a file or a directory search at the beginning where the
result of the search will be saved in a <Property />, and I believe that
you can then set your launch condition based upon that property. Also,
if everything checks out with the directory or file search, then you
could set your installation directory to the result of that? Is that
what you're looking for? Check out the <FileSearch /> and
<DirectorySearch /> elements out if so.
On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
wrote:
For a particular installation, the user has some of the files required
for installation already on their system prior to running the installer.
I want to copy these files into the installation directory.
Is there a preferred method for doing this?
Would I need a Custom Action, can I manually insert these locally hosted
files into the database tables at install time, or is there another
method?
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