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How do I mark folders not to delete upon unintall?

Hi
Does anyone know how to mark folders not to delete upon unintall in Wise?

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Posted by: gmorgan618 17 years ago
Blue Belt
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Well I've only briefly looked at WISE .. i use installshield but they looked fairly similiar...

In installshield, you can mark the component as Permanent or Shared - neither of those is uninstalled (even on rollback)- I would have to believe there is something very close to that with wise... I wish i could tell you how to simply edit the MSI with ORCA but i don't know what the proper property value would be off the top of my head.

Hope this helps a little
Posted by: vamshidharr 17 years ago
Senior Yellow Belt
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Hi Chig,

Its pretty much easy.Just go to the Windows Install Editor, go to the Execute Deffered Script page , in this you will find "Remove Folders" tag .Just comment the action , it will not remove the folder which are installed or run time created.
The second way is you can mark the folders as "leave installed while uninstallation" in folder table.
Posted by: bheers 17 years ago
Second Degree Blue Belt
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If you have many folders, under components table , Change the attibute of the component to 16.
Posted by: turbokitty 17 years ago
6th Degree Black Belt
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Be careful gmorgan618, when you mark the component as "shared" it only increments the reference counter for that component. When the counter hits zero, it's still going to pull the component off.

Marking it as "permanent" will work though. Also, you could wipe out the GUID on the component. That will also abandon it.
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