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Mar 03, 2017

I have an installshield 2013 installer which does not work on machines when the 'C:\users\public\desktop' folder is not present. Extract from the installer log is below. Doesn't tell me a great deal. I don't think the custom action is being called...

Nov 11, 2016

Morning All,I've been wrestling with a problem with our installer for a couple of days. It is a Basic MSI project, and for every build we change the Package Code, leaving the product code and version untouched (thus making this a 'Small Update" in i...

Mar 07, 2017

Yet again, another messy workaround for some installshield/msi behaviour I don't understand. I have added a Powershell custom action before my installscript ones which looks for the public desktop folder and creates it if it is not present. When cr...

Dec 06, 2016

In case anyone's reading this looking for an answer, I don't have one  I ended up writing a custom action to look for the patch cache folder and rename all the binaries in there to prevent them being used by InstallShield. Was unable to delete the...

Nov 11, 2016

Another piece of information from the MSI log. I notice that the command line is:Command Line: REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus IS_MINOR_UPGRADE=1 SETUPEXEDIR=xxx SETUPEXENAME=xxxx CURRENTDIRECTORY=xxx CLIENTUILEVEL=0 CLIENTPROCESSID=11516 My under...

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