How to auto delete files dropped by IA into temp folders

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How to auto delete files dropped by IA into temp folders

Postby afriesen3 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:36 pm

I am using pgplwiz to extract an MSI file from the exe generated by IA. When installing using this MSI, an executable file (that is named with a GUID with an exe extension) gets dropped in the user's temp folder. When the installation is complete, this file does not get cleaned up automatically. After a few installs, these files start taking up quite a bit of disk space.

Is there a way to clean these up automatically as part of the install?

If not, any suggestions on how I could go about doing it?

I thought of scheduling a task to perform the removal at the user's next login, but I only want this to happen if the install is done via the MSI file, not the original EXE file so I cannot blindly just use EXEFILE.

I think checking for $EXEFILE$ ending in "}.exe" could be used as the trigger. Doing a pattern match on $EXEFILE$, and saving the "}.exe" into a variable should work, but I'm not sure how to set up the pattern match to do this.

The online help was of no use.

Thanks in advance,
Aaron

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