Are you really specifying the entire path? It seems like you are not. There's
no reason for Windows to change a fully specified path, but if you specify just
a file name Windows will use the current directory and it obviously has no way
of knowing that you mean the ProgramFiles folder. It may be that something
else is going on, maybe using a property you obtained in the UI sequence but
didn't list in SecureCustomProperties, so it disappeared.
Phil Wilson
-Original Message-
From: Marcel Wouters [mailto:marcelwout...@msn.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 3:00 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Custom action cannot find installed files
I have made a custom action to update a xml file which is installed. I'm
passing the path of the file to the custom action with CustomActionData.
This works fine, but when I try to open the xml file in the custom action
the action is looking in the wrong directory.
NOT
Installed
For example the path of the xml file is: C:\Program
Files(x86)\MyProgram\file.xml but the action is looking at
C:\Windows\Installer\.TMP\C:\Program Files(x86)\MyProgram\file.xml
If I debug the custom action the value of the string is 'C:\Program
Files(x86)\MyProgram\file.xml' but when opening the xml file with for
example the XDocument.Load method the path is prefixed with
C:\Windows\Installer\***.TMP\
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