Hi,
I am using Wix 3.9.1208. I have an installer created earlier with Install Shield Limited Edition that installed as a per user package. I have been upgrading the original installation over the last two years. I now need to upgrade the program using Wix as I need the additional functionality Wix provides. The issue I am having is when I use Wix as the installer and I have the InstallScope attribute set to per-user I get an error message that says "the installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory" and the message is pointing to the Program Files/My Application directory. I have done quite a bit of research on this over the last two days and I believe this issue has been brought up several times e.g. http://sourceforge.net/p/wix/mailman/search/?q=per-user+Program+Files+insufficient+privilege The answer seems to be to be either move the installation away from Program Files or to elevate the InstallScope attribute to perMachine. I can confirm that perMachine does fix the privileges issue but it is not a viable solution for me in this instance. Neither of those two options will work for me. 1) I cannot change the InstallScope attribute as I am creating an update so the InstallScope between the two versions need to be the same or it will install side-by-side instead of updating. 2) To change the location of the install directory means changes to settings and possibly the source code (I won't know until I test)! Does anyone know of a solution that will allow me to do a per-user install to Program Files? Kind regards Scott Ferguson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
