Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall / Update forgetting files ... still

2009-04-02 Thread Adam Burton
>Ouch... IMHO, there is no excuse for this type of mentality, but hey, if its not your call... >It's somewhat analogous to "But we've always bashed our heads against the wall... Sure it hurts like hell but nobody has died >yet..." Agreed, unfortunately no amount of arguing on my parts going to mak

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall / Update forgetting files ... still

2009-04-01 Thread Alex Cater
Developers above me. I originally set up using the COM+ extension then when someone found out, I was queried and basically asked to move back to the custom scripts we had used before. In the end its not my decision. I can sort of understand their thinking, "its never failed us before so why ch

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall / Update forgetting files ... still

2009-04-01 Thread Adam Burton
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 22:47:46 Alex Cater wrote: > I suggest you break the problem down to isolate the cause: > > 1. Simplify the authoring to just install the web files (or simply a > reduced set) and test: a) Install, uninstall > b) Install, upgrade, uninstall > > Then flesh it out gradu

Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall / Update forgetting files ... still

2009-04-01 Thread Alex Cater
I suggest you break the problem down to isolate the cause: 1. Simplify the authoring to just install the web files (or simply a reduced set) and test: a) Install, uninstall b) Install, upgrade, uninstall Then flesh it out gradually... 2. Cut to the chase and use the ComPlusExtension to

[WiX-users] Uninstall / Update forgetting files ... still

2009-04-01 Thread Adam Burton
Hi, I never got sent the email I sent to wix-users so couldn't see how to reply to my previous email, so forced to re-post. Below is my previous email. >Hi, >there is something I am obviously doing seriously wrong with a particular >installer I have, but I am clueless as to what. > >Installing, wo

[WiX-users] Uninstall / Update forgetting files?

2009-03-31 Thread Adam Burton
Hi, there is something I am obviously doing seriously wrong with a particular installer I have, but I am clueless as to what. Installing, works great, however then when I come to uninstall, or update, a majority of the time it simply executes custom actions and leaves it at that (on uninstall i