The background: my target directory is set to say hard-coded, C:\MyFolder.
In the IDE, I select the folder containing the files and sub-folders where my files are I want to install. I add all the files from say, C:\Temp\MyFiles. In C:\Temp\MyFiles I have a number of sub-folders which aren't initially added. I select $TARGETDIR$ and drag those sub-folder into it, one by one. I have about 20 sub-folders to drag and drop. Two things:
1. I have to keep selecting $TARGETDIR$ each time I drag a sub-folder. If I don't, the IDE drops the folder into the one I last selected. If I drag the folder and hover over $TARGETDIR$ and release the button it must surely be the sensible assumption that the drop should go into the one I selected. It's like the IDE has a bright-light retinal imprint of the last folder I dropped. I don't think that's correct.
2. Anyway, I select $TARGETDIR$ every time
and after I've dropped a few sub-folders into it, the miaa blows up, and I lose all the changes I've made. I've lost a lot of time this morning over this problem and now, I have to drag-and-drop, save, quit, drag-and-drop, save, quit after each because I can't trust the IDE to let me do all of them one after the other. I'm not doing anything in the MSIcode so it's all down to what's going on in the IDE. I can't submit my project because it's too big. I'm reasonably confident it can be replicated if you create an installation from a folder containing lots of files and lots of sub-folders. Hope this helps.
