oqcgpstuff1.5524918452280337E12 asked a question.
User healing outside of predefined folders?
I need to be able to create a "user" directory (target path for all of the user components for my app) based on a user environment variable. When I install the application via administrator and then logon as a regular user I need the application to heal itself and create a new "user" directory based on that user's environemnt variable.
I've been able to get the MSI to install properly as admin (using Admin's environment variable) but when I logon as a restricted user the application "heals" but does not re-evaluate the "user" directory path. The user files remain in the "admin" enviro path and the healing only populates the user registry info.
If I use a predefined folder like APPDATA everything works fine (the files populate based on the user's APPDATA path) The problem is that I can't use one of the predefined folders and must create my own.
Does anyone know what I have to do to get the MSI to re-evaluate the user file component path when healing?
I've done a search for this info but can't find anything that deals specifically with my problem. I would appreciate any help/comments.
Cheers,
Ian
Have a look at the restrictions in the MSI help
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/msi/setup/changing_the_target_location_for_a_directory.asp
It looks like a script is needed to create these folders.
if you see what I mean, its handy to keep all this sort of stuff in one place.