Hi, I'm performing a major upgrade to my application and in the log I see that one component is not installed although there is no condition on the component. When using the same setup for clean installation there is no problem. This is the line I get in the log: MSI (s) (A4:D0) [17:01:28:302]: Component: ; Installed: Absent; Request: Local; Action: Null
During the major upgrade I can see that the dll the component should install is removed as it should.
During upgrade, what is the feature state? In the upgrade sequence, try to force the state to be "local" by calling: MsiSetFeatureState(hMSI,"FEATURE_NAME",INSTALLSTATE_LOCAL);
search your log for "ActionStart(Name=InstallFiles" under that, you'll see a whole bunch of log chunks that look like [CODE]MSI (s) (C0:00) [16:58:32:296]: Executing op: FileCopy(SourceName=,SourceCabKey=,DestName=,Attributes=16384,FileSize=6808,PerTick=32768,,VerifyMedia=1,,,,,CheckCRC=0,,,InstallMode=58982400,HashOptions=0,HashPart1=50163850,HashPart2=1563162041,HashPart3=181922321,HashPart4=701931371,,) MSI (s) (C0:00) [16:58:32:296]: File: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\; To be installed; Won't patch; No existing file [/CODE] it's on that second line that it describes what action was/wasn't taken on and why.
now that i look at it, maybe the faster search would be "FileCopy(SourceName=" where filename.ext is the name of the file in question.
