Patch Failure

[TravisLudlow]

Hi,

I'm using InstallAware Studio 12.

When I create a patch (even following the step by step example in the white paper - InstallAware 7) and execute it the final form of the wizard says "The installation failed "" please check your settings and try again"

I have no idea why the patch is not successfully installing. In the example its simply updating a txt file in the target directory.

Please assist.

Thanks

Travis

[giaviv]

Travis,

Could you please attach the project you are testing with here?

[TravisLudlow]

I have attached the file 3 times and waited for it to upload and yet its still not clear whether the file has somehow been attached to this post.

Please confirm whether you can access it, if not I will post a link to hotfile

Travis

[giaviv]

Travis, seems like it did not work..

[andcrumx]

I have the same problem did you find a solution?

[FrancescoT]

Dear User,

If you follow the patch guidelines, you should of course produce your patch-setup.

Anyway, I will summarize the critical points:

- Develop and create your first version setup project, say Ver1, with all the files and settings that you may need.

- Build your setup to produce your setup.exe (I am assuming that you are developing a single exe file setup). Wait untill done.

- Copy your project folder (ver1) to another folder (ver2) ( this to simplify how to patch). Now you should have two projects in two folders (ver1 and ver2) and that are completely identical.

- Open project in ver2 folder and make all the changes you need, such adding file, replacing a file already present and other, but do not change build output file name (if any), project version, product codes and project name.

- In project2 add, in the "Design View Patch window", the previous builded exe setup file for the previous version. In our case will be only one and it is the single file exe in the "..\Project1\Release\Single" folder. Obviously, here you will add any other setup for previous version to patch, if any. But for this example it is just one.

- Build your setup for Project2 to produce your Ver2 setup.exe. Wait untill done.

- Now go again to "Design View Patch window" for project project2, and press the Build Patch button. when finished you will find in your Ver2 folder under the subfolder Patch, your new patch exe.

RUN THE PATCH AND TEST IT!

Hope this helps you.

Regards
Francesco Toscano
InstallAware Support

[andcrumx]

I followed the steps in the pdf file "Using InstallAware 7", and it worked well, but in my real project does not work, I attached the code of my project and the log of the execution of the patch.

The patch just add a dll to the original project. If you need more information please let me know

[FrancescoT]

Dear Andcrumx,

the files you have attached are not useful to understand your problem, because in 99.9999% of the cases, the problem resides in project settings.

So please review carefully your projects setting, check project name, version, product code, upgrade code and executable filename.

Let me know if still have problem.

Regards