You could write a CA to put the file in a temp location each time, check the creation date on both (or some other unique variable), and then move it into the proper directory. You would have to write additional code to handle backup of the pre-existing file in the instance of an update removal or an total uninstall.
Jon W. McCain | Software Engineer - Install phone & fax +1.317.715.8462 | jon.mcc...@inin.com Interactive Intelligence Inc. Deliberately Innovative www.inin.com -----Original Message----- From: Pandurangan, Vasanthakumar [mailto:vasanthakumar.panduran...@hp.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 6:50 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Using wix how to always overwrite a file? Hi, There are 2 msi installer files, both of them write the same file in the same location. Objective is to overwrite the file by the latest installer. As of now, the file is not versioned. So Installer re-writes the file only when the modified date is older than created date of the existing file. How to change it so that this file is always over written by the latest installer? What should be the value of "DefaultVersion" attribute in File tag? I'm unable to find any example of Wix code which uses "DefaultVersion" attribute in File element. Thanks in Advance, Vasanth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
