Re: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location.
In a verbose installation log, search for the properties Content, Audio, FBX, _394D1CD9, boku_programming_ui_02.fbm. See which one starts the deviation from the others. Then look back to where that property gets set and who sets it. -Original Message- From: Eric Anderson [mailto:eand...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location. Hello, Our installer project has a large number of content files existing in a pretty deep folder hierarchy. We use the heat.exe utility to generate a fragment for all of them. This works great, the xml output looks correct. But when performing a per-user install, one of the folders always goes to the all-users location (below Program Files). All other content folders go the expected location (below AppData/Local/Apps), it's just one of them that gets misplaced. I'm not sure how it is possible for files in the same fragment to have different base paths. Here's a snippet of our content file fragment: The beginning of the content fragment: Fragment DirectoryRef Id=APPLICATIONFOLDER Directory Id=Content Name=Content This folder (Audio), and many others at this level, go to the correct location: Directory Id=Audio Name=Audio Component Id=In_Memory_Wave_Bank.xwb Guid=* File Id=In_Memory_Wave_Bank.xwb KeyPath=yes Source=SourceDir\Content\Audio\In Memory Wave Bank.xwb / /Component ... This folder (FBX), which exists at the same level in the fragment as Audio (from above), always goes to the all-users location: Directory Id=FBX Name=FBX Directory Id=_394D1CD9 Name=394D1CD9 Directory Id=boku_programming_ui_02.fbm Name=boku_programming_ui-02.fbm Component Id=actuator_face_03_0.xnb Guid=* File Id=actuator_face_03_0.xnb KeyPath=yes Source=SourceDir\Content\FBX\394D1CD9\boku_programming_ui-02.fbm\actuator-f ace-03_0.xnb / /Component I'm pretty new to WiX, so I'm probably just missing something obvious. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Eric -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location.
Here's a long shot: Could the FBX and _394D1CD9 folders be treated differently because they consist of all uppercase letters? -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 3:00 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location. In a verbose installation log, search for the properties Content, Audio, FBX, _394D1CD9, boku_programming_ui_02.fbm. See which one starts the deviation from the others. Then look back to where that property gets set and who sets it. -Original Message- From: Eric Anderson [mailto:eand...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location. Hello, Our installer project has a large number of content files existing in a pretty deep folder hierarchy. We use the heat.exe utility to generate a fragment for all of them. This works great, the xml output looks correct. But when performing a per-user install, one of the folders always goes to the all-users location (below Program Files). All other content folders go the expected location (below AppData/Local/Apps), it's just one of them that gets misplaced. I'm not sure how it is possible for files in the same fragment to have different base paths. Here's a snippet of our content file fragment: The beginning of the content fragment: Fragment DirectoryRef Id=APPLICATIONFOLDER Directory Id=Content Name=Content This folder (Audio), and many others at this level, go to the correct location: Directory Id=Audio Name=Audio Component Id=In_Memory_Wave_Bank.xwb Guid=* File Id=In_Memory_Wave_Bank.xwb KeyPath=yes Source=SourceDir\Content\Audio\In Memory Wave Bank.xwb / /Component ... This folder (FBX), which exists at the same level in the fragment as Audio (from above), always goes to the all-users location: Directory Id=FBX Name=FBX Directory Id=_394D1CD9 Name=394D1CD9 Directory Id=boku_programming_ui_02.fbm Name=boku_programming_ui-02.fbm Component Id=actuator_face_03_0.xnb Guid=* File Id=actuator_face_03_0.xnb KeyPath=yes Source=SourceDir\Content\FBX\394D1CD9\boku_programming_ui-02.fbm\actuator-f ace-03_0.xnb / /Component I'm pretty new to WiX, so I'm probably just missing something obvious. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Eric -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location.
I believe the problem may have been that their identifiers were all uppercase. Changing them to mixed case resolved the issue. -Original Message- From: Eric Anderson [mailto:eand...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 4:16 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location. Here's a long shot: Could the FBX and _394D1CD9 folders be treated differently because they consist of all uppercase letters? -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 3:00 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location. In a verbose installation log, search for the properties Content, Audio, FBX, _394D1CD9, boku_programming_ui_02.fbm. See which one starts the deviation from the others. Then look back to where that property gets set and who sets it. -Original Message- From: Eric Anderson [mailto:eand...@microsoft.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 1:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] With per-user install, some files are placed in the all-users location. Hello, Our installer project has a large number of content files existing in a pretty deep folder hierarchy. We use the heat.exe utility to generate a fragment for all of them. This works great, the xml output looks correct. But when performing a per-user install, one of the folders always goes to the all-users location (below Program Files). All other content folders go the expected location (below AppData/Local/Apps), it's just one of them that gets misplaced. I'm not sure how it is possible for files in the same fragment to have different base paths. Here's a snippet of our content file fragment: The beginning of the content fragment: Fragment DirectoryRef Id=APPLICATIONFOLDER Directory Id=Content Name=Content This folder (Audio), and many others at this level, go to the correct location: Directory Id=Audio Name=Audio Component Id=In_Memory_Wave_Bank.xwb Guid=* File Id=In_Memory_Wave_Bank.xwb KeyPath=yes Source=SourceDir\Content\Audio\In Memory Wave Bank.xwb / /Component ... This folder (FBX), which exists at the same level in the fragment as Audio (from above), always goes to the all-users location: Directory Id=FBX Name=FBX Directory Id=_394D1CD9 Name=394D1CD9 Directory Id=boku_programming_ui_02.fbm Name=boku_programming_ui-02.fbm Component Id=actuator_face_03_0.xnb Guid=* File Id=actuator_face_03_0.xnb KeyPath=yes Source=SourceDir\Content\FBX\394D1CD9\boku_programming_ui-02.fbm\actuator-f ace-03_0.xnb / /Component I'm pretty new to WiX, so I'm probably just missing something obvious. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks, Eric -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer
