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‎May 10, 2017
11:12 AM
How to find files in use?
Hello,
I have a basic msi project and when I upgrade my application it shows the file in use dialog and it shows a list of application which is consuming my file which need to be overwritten. My problem here is how can I identify the binaries which are in use? Mine is a legacy application and and I am using several merge modules in my installer. I read about the internal table "FilesInUse" which contains the list of binaries/files in use and InstallValidate queries this table to show the msiRMFileInUse dialog. Is there a way to access this table? I have used verbose log level with x (/L*vx) without any luck. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Tobin
I have a basic msi project and when I upgrade my application it shows the file in use dialog and it shows a list of application which is consuming my file which need to be overwritten. My problem here is how can I identify the binaries which are in use? Mine is a legacy application and and I am using several merge modules in my installer. I read about the internal table "FilesInUse" which contains the list of binaries/files in use and InstallValidate queries this table to show the msiRMFileInUse dialog. Is there a way to access this table? I have used verbose log level with x (/L*vx) without any luck. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thanks
Tobin
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‎May 11, 2017
04:33 AM
Here is how you can find it. Looks like installer is putting the files in use information in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RestartManager\Session0000\RegFiles0000. Please note that this key will be present only as long as the FilesInUse dialog is active in installer. Once you close the installer, this value will get cleaned up
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‎May 11, 2017
04:38 AM
You can find the file in use in the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RestartManager\Session0000\RegFiles0000. Please note that this registry key will be available as long as the FileInUse dialog is active in your installer. For more details read my blog
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‎May 11, 2017
04:39 AM
You can find the file in use in the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RestartManager\Session0000\RegFiles0000. Please note that this registry key will be available as long as the FileInUse dialog is active in your installer.