Tom For files your installer places on the hard disk, the uninstall should remove them automatically unless they are still in use. There should be no need for you to manually remove these files. Directories are a different matter as the uninstall will not remove it if the directory is not empty. This typically happens if the application generates its own files when running. The uninstaller does not know anything about them and thus leaves both the files and the directory intact.
Run the uninstall from the command line using msiexec to get a verbose log and see what the log says. It should give you a clue why the files are not removed. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kazimiers [mailto:2voo...@gmx.de] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 04:07 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall Problem if installed on non system partition Hi, the installer I use is written with WiX 3 and everything works, except one little problem with the uninstallation process. If I don't change the default install location (which is on the system partition of Windows) everything works as expected (everything gets removed on an uninstall). But if I use a different install location only some files get removed (in fact, only some sub folders with their content). Files that lie directly in the install location folder do not get removed. Has anyone experienced such a problem before? If I compare both component declarations in the wix source, I see no fundamental differences that could cause this. In other installers where sometimes <RemoveFile> and <RemoveDirectory> tags used. When are they needed and when not? Thanks in advance, Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
