I have faced this problem sometime back and I had tried several approaches based on what others had suggested. I will enumerate them here but I was not successful in solving this (Perhaps I was committing other errors).
1. Simulate installshield's 'always Overwrite' attribute. You can try giving this file a dummy version in the File table. Edit the msi with ORCA or do it with a postbuild jscript manipulation. A file copy rule here is that if you have a versioned file trying to overwrite an unversioned one, this will always overwrite. Reverse case will never work. 2. Try what they call a companion file rule. Here, bundle this unversioned file along with another versioned file (like a dll or executable etc, which can have a version resource unlike text files which cannot). Drawback here is that it breaks the component rule that each file should have its own component. If you break component rules the installer's ability to repair the install is impaired. 3. Try to have a registry entry as a key file, for the unversioned file component that you are trying to copy. 4. Another approach that I tried without success: I wrote a DTF custom action that would adjust the installed file's creation and modification times and set them to be same. I scheduled it before InstallFiles. In my case, I was able to completely circumvent the situation where I had to copy the unversioned file. I scheduled RemoveExistingProducts early so overwriting the unversioned file became a non-issue. Lastly, In my case, some folks had suggested using REINSTALLMODE=amus. This is definitely something you should not do. This can cause many undesired effects. Chief one being, in some cases you could end up downgrading system files. Your app may work but others would start failing. Finally, if you are able to solve this problem please share it with us. Having struggled with this for some time I definitely would like to know. Good luck! Umesh Umesh -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/WiX-force-copy-file-tp6270161p6273079.html Sent from the wix-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
