Hi, all. I know you're going to just shake your head at this, but here it is.
I create installers for one of many products that install onto a group of roughly 14,000 systems at my employer. Some of these systems have drives that are small by modern standards, and thanks to a weird partitioning scheme, the drive with the Windows directory is seldom more than 30 - 40 GB. I've just found out that, in order to get enough drive space to keep running, our support team sometimes deletes the contents of the windows\installer directory - the Windows Installer Cache. In a bit of reading on the Microsoft site - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2667628 - this is something of a fatal injury for the Windows Installer in terms of uninstall or repair of already installed packages. Despite that, nobody is going to reinstall Windows on these devices - they're scattered around the country connected to slow DSL lines for the most part, and nobody local is willing or able to do that. I don't really care about the bigger problem, but I'm wondering if anyone has any "thoughts about authoring packages that might have to install into that mess, or might have to be used to upgrade an already installed package whose cache contents got deleted. (Different ProductCode, same UpgradeCode.) Thanks, Walt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
