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\"Install Files\" overwrite rules

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:23 am
by Reiter_Rudolf_S4
Hello to everyone, who's reading this!
I have a severe problem with editing the "install files" operation in my MSI code. My setup is used to update some files. If the file versions are different, the later ones are placed in the final installation. But if the filesversions equate each other, the date of modification should be compared! In my setup program files with newer modification dates are replaced and I can't accept this.
I would be very grateful for helpful answers!

Reiter Rudolf
STEP-FOUR GmbH
5071 Wals-Siezenheim
Austria

Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:53 am
by MichaelNesmith
Sorry, you've got no choice. That's the way Windows Installer always does it.

Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 1:32 am
by Reiter_Rudolf_S4
Isn't there any approach? I think this is an ordinary requirement. Dosen't anybody else has this problem?