Hi,
You are doing what I would recommend. In some cases it is not
actually possible to install into a users my documents folder as that
user may not even have a profile on the machine yet. Using the
application to configure itself on first run is best practice.
As for 2. I don't see how your application cannot have read permissions
to its own program files folder as it is running from there. You should
not be able to write to that folder though. Are you asking for a handle
to the files to copy that requests write access and that is failing?
Dave W
-----Original Message-----
From: En-jay EAH. Hsu [mailto:enj...@windward.net]
Sent: 16 July 2009 17:08
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Install approach and location
Hi.
We have a number of sample files we install for the user to use in Word
& Excel. So we want these files to be placed in the user's My Documents
folder. However, during the install many times the user installing is
not the user running the program.
What we have done is install the sample files in the Program Files
folder for our application, then copy them over to My Documents the
first time someone uses the program.
1. Is this still the recommended approach for this issue?
2. Windows when locked down does not like us reading files from
our Program Files folder - where should we install these too?
Application Data?
Thanks,
En-jay
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