Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-06 Thread Reuss, Matthias
not been modified after creation (copying) Best regards Matthias Reuss -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Pavan Konduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2015 03:46 An: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Betreff: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-06 Thread Pavan Konduru
Hi Mat, Thank you for your email. That made a lot of sense. --Pavan -Original Message- From: Reuss, Matthias [mailto:matthias.mr.re...@sivantos.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 11:38 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-06 Thread Pavan Konduru
:34 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten Pavan, I have run into this myself, and assuming it is not a user-modified file, it is usually caused by a 'patch' or previous install that was performed which did not use Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Matthew Bobowski
From: pavan.kond...@accelrys.com To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:37:54 -0700 Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten So what is the best way to overwrite the files that I want? Using the Remove File element for each of those files? --Pavan

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Pavan Konduru
it got replaced: Date Created: 05/05/2015 Date modified: 12/22/2014 --Pavan -Original Message- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 2:57 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten Correct

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Pavan Konduru
: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten Correct, docs here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa370531(v=vs.85).aspx --- Phil Wilson On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Pavan Konduru pavan.kond...@accelrys.com wrote: Thank you Phil for your response. From what I get you

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Phil Wilson
To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten You might be misunderstanding check for modified dates. The absolute values are irrelevant. There is no later version based on later dates. An unversioned file will not be overwritten if its

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Rob Mensching
: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 10:54 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. (wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten Hi All, We have an installer that basically is trying to overwrite some files that is on the host system. The files that are being

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Phil Wilson
You might be misunderstanding check for modified dates. The absolute values are irrelevant. There is no later version based on later dates. An unversioned file will not be overwritten if its modified date is different to its creation date, no matter what the values are. Windows Installer will set

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Pavan Konduru
- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 11:59 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten You might be misunderstanding check for modified dates. The absolute values are irrelevant

Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Pavan Konduru
Hi Rob, Yes, the date created and modified are different. --Pavan -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@firegiant.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 12:06 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] File not getting overwritten Created

[WiX-users] File not getting overwritten

2015-05-05 Thread Pavan Konduru
Hi All, We have an installer that basically is trying to overwrite some files that is on the host system. The files that are being overwritten were not installed by the installer. When I run my installer, all these files get overwritten. On one particular machine, these files don't seem to be