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Presidenten
Presidenten

Reputation: 6437

Windows installer wont overwrite file when reinstalling

In my windows installer project I place some files in the users "My documents" ... but when I uninstall the program the files stay in the directory and when I reinstall they do not get overwritten like I would like them to be.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

/P

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1791

Answers (1)

StrayPointer
StrayPointer

Reputation: 1304

This link helped me a lot -- turns out there is a flag called REINSTALLMODE that is not accessible via the Visual Studio deployment projects. You need to find and download the Microsoft utility called 'Orca' to set a flag that forces a reinstall of all files regardless of the date, version, etc.

http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/DotNet/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/2009-01/msg00161.html

Upvotes: 4

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