Ahh, I see. The file was still there after rollback and that's how you saw
it encrypted. Okay, cool.
Also, if you see stuff left in the cache, try restarting the machine. Often
it's stuff that we couldn't delete and have pended for delete.
If it's still there, then it'd be considered a bug.
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Wesley Manning <wmann...@dynagen.ca> wrote:
> Just to be clear. On one customer’s computer the package cache folder
> only contained that one MSI file (I asked him what was in that folder).
> The only other “things” in the package cache were folders of that MSI file.
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> I would think that the MSI file and folders would get removed on rollback
> but for some reason it was not.****
>
> ** **
>
> Wes****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com]
> *Sent:* May-07-13 12:13 PM
> *To:* Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list
> *Subject:* Re: [WiX-devs] Windows 7 Professional - Package Cache and
> Encryption****
>
> ** **
>
> It perplexes me a little bit how the .msi file would get encrypted but
> none of the other files are. As pointed on in a different for of the
> thread, I could maybe see how the "Package Cache" might inherit encryption
> from parent folders and propagate down to all the payloads... but I'm not
> seeing how just the .msi file gets marked encrypted. That is still a
> mystery to me. However, if you have consistent repro we should try a couple
> things in burn and see if we can solve the root issue.****
>
> ** **
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Wesley Manning <wmann...@dynagen.ca>
> wrote:****
>
> I had a second customer where our burn installer failed on Windows 7
> Professional x64. I had him go into the "Package Cache" folder and
> encryption was not set on it and all subfolders but was set on the one
> remaining msi file. I had him remove the encryption from the file and
> rerun the installer and it then installed successfully. Must be a bug in
> rollback also because it left one MSI there (I cache 3 in total). I guess
> good thing otherwise I wouldn't have found the cause.
>
> Has there been any problems with Visual Studio install for Windows 7
> professional? If I've seen this twice Visual Studio team must have seen
> this before. I tried reproducing this on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64
> computer by encrypting the package cache folder and then installing but it
> installed fine (as you would expect).
>
> Where is the encryption code located in the burn source code?
> Maybe it should be changed to check MSI files before they are run from the
> cache and decrypt them. What do you guys think?
>
> Wes
>
>
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