In that case you have to be following component rules. See http://www.joyofsetup.com/2008/12/30/paying-for-upgrades/ Also with your placement, if the old version fails to uninstall then the user will have both old & new versions installed - something to keep in mind.
Try putting it after InstallInitialize. The old version will be uninstalled first before anything new is installed. If the install of the new product fails then the rollback will restore the old version. If you use DIFxApp for driver installs then it needs to be put between InstallValidate and InstallInitialize due to a bug in DIFxApp. In that case a failed install of the new product but after the successful uninstall of the old product will leave the computer with no product installed at all. I think that must be a good place to put it if there are buggy custom actions and component rules aren't being well-followed. James -----Original Message----- From: Igor Lemsky [mailto:igor.lem...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 06:04 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with RemoveExistingProducts action I have upgrade scenario for my system from 2.0 version to 2.1 version. I have file for example aaa.xml in 2.1 version and no such file in 2.0 version. It lies in independent component i feature Afeature (it was in 2.0 also). During install there are no problems: file installs to the right location. But during upgrade from 2.0 version it copies and then deleted. It seems that RemoveExistingProducts deletes it during uninstall of older 2.0 product. It planned after InstallFinalize action (the most right place as I understand). Due to the log Installer unpublish features and the delete files... MSI (s) (DC:B8) [11:54:05:148]: Executing op: FileRemove(,FileName=aaa.xml,,ComponentId={369A88EA-F2DD-4124-9560-13E5694E2 EEB}) RemoveFiles: File: aaa.xml, folder: C:\Mag\ I dont understand - what happened? Why it deletes files? May be I didnt configured installer correctly? But how? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. Free Software Download: http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. Free Software Download: http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
