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Sources required on uninstall

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:33 pm
by rjh
When I uninstall my compressed setup, it displays a dialog and wants me to broswse for the sources. They will most likely be long gone by the time the user uninstalls and they user won't know where to look anyway.

I found some references to this problem with IA ver 6, we just purchased ver 7. How can I allow the user to uninstall? We want to deliver a single EXE. Installshield caches the MSI file in the downloaded installation folder in windows, I cannot find an option to do this?

-Rich

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:57 pm
by Alex_Ronquillo
IA creates the uninstaller at the following location, It doesn't prompt for sources, unless you choose modify and it is a single exe, then you do need the original sources. The uninstaller is created at "C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application Data\\$PRODUCTCODE$\\ folder for all users, and "C:\\Documents and Settings\\$CURRENTUSER$\\Application Data\\{0DFDC922-E77B-447D-BB69-18FF0DC6F61C}\\New Project.exe" for Just me.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:27 pm
by rjh
Narrowed down the issue. I am trying to install drivers, if I set it to uninstall the driver, I get prompted for the sources. If I remove that, its ok, which is fine for now.

More serious issue is that when I specify an INF file for a driver to install it does not install anything. I have included all the driver files with the install in the folder:

$TARGETDIR$\\drivers\\ftdibus.inf

I put in some message boxes in the code so I know its calling the script statement. Why does it not install the drivers?

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:12 am
by rjh
Still waiting for a reply on this.