You could move files (strictly components) around, but in most installs the features are units of functionality and not random collections of assorted files. A feature is the user's unit of functionality that can be added or removed, and moving files out of one often requires other changes such as help and docs that say "installing feature X gives you this functionality" because it no longer does.
As Blair says, look at the verbose log. In the absence of hard evidence that says what's really happening it seems premature to change feature content. --------------- Phil Wilson On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 5:44 AM, Walt Dexter <wfdex...@gmail.com> wrote: > And there's the answer. They're all in the same feature. > > Can I move existing files between features in an upgrade? That would position > me better the next time around. > > > > > > On Jan 28, 2014, at 4:36 AM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote: > >> Are you doing a major upgrade or a recache/repair? >> >> Are the files it was killing off in the same feature as other files that >> were changed? Remember that features are installed/repaired/removed as a >> unit. >> >> >> Your verbose install logs should be telling you why it wanted to "replace" >> files that "didn't change". What do your logs have to say? >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Blair >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Walter Dexter >> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 9:53 PM >> To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. >> >> >> >> >> >> I believe that is only true for versioned files, although I may be mistaken. >> >> In this particular case (properly versioned .Net 3.5 executables) they were >> unchanged and should not have been replaced according to my, and your, >> understanding of the rules. Despite that, Windows Installer was killing >> them off. Perhaps it just shoots first and asks questions later unless told >> to not terminate. I have no idea. >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Nicolás Alvarez >> <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> 2014-01-27 Walter Dexter <wfdex...@gmail.com>: >>>> Got it! >>>> >>>> I haven't worked out all the details but changing the MSIRMSHUTDOWN >>>> property to "0" makes it do what I wanted. 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