Oh, and to answer Rob: yes, since they go "way back" (see below on the update 
as to how often they get created).

WiX (and hence DTF) 3.7, for what that's worth.



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-----Original Message-----
From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca] 
Sent: January-08-15 3:11 PM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle temporary files

Update:
We figured out that this occurs when our "check if installed" application calls 
Microsoft.Tools.WindowsInstallerXml.Unbinder.Unbind (from DTF), as we use that 
to determine the UpgradeCode, as per another post from this list. I save to a 
temporarily location and overwrite any existing scratch but the temporary 
location is actually nowhere near the location I allude to nor is it named 
randomly, so ...




Keith Douglas
Statistics Canada | 170 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 
Statistique Canada | 170, promenade Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa ON K1A 0T6 
keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca Telephone | Téléphone 613-854-5589 Facsimile | 
Télécopieur 613-951-4674 Government of Canada | Gouvernement du Canada 


-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com]
Sent: January-08-15 2:42 PM
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Bundle temporary files

They should be removed when the bundle finishes executing. If not, they may 
have been held in use and require a restart. Has colleague restarted?

_____________________________________________________________
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-----Original Message-----
From: keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca [mailto:keith.doug...@statcan.gc.ca]
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2015 8:31 AM
To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [WiX-users] Bundle temporary files

We bundle MSUs up with the default bootstrapper for ease of installation of our 
remote users.

A colleague of mine noticed that in c:\users\[logged in 
user]\appdata\local\temp\ there are a bunch of randomly named folders with a 
attached.cab and an ux.cab seemingly for each bundle ever run. I take it the 
WiX bootstrapper application is creating these (given ux.cab has the PNGs from 
the WiX toolset, as far as I can tell)? What should be done to clean these 
up/what are these for, if anything? A colleague has ~170 gigabytes of them, 
which seems excessive even for repeated runs of the same bundle.exe.




Keith Douglas
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