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Milosz
Milosz

Reputation: 1

How can I change location for per-user and per-machine installations in Advanced Installer

I want to add an per-user and per-machine installation type to my Advanced Installer project. However default installation location is [AI_UserProgramFiles] which resolves to ProgramFiles in per-machine and LocalAppData in per-user installations. This does not work, because my application downloads libs with Maven and saves temporary files, so I need non-administrative users to be able to modify contents of the per-machine location folder.

I thought ProgramData might be a good place, so I changed ApplicationFolder to [CommonAppDataFolder], but now the application is installed in ProgramData folder in both types (per-user and per-machine), which I do not think is right. What folder should I use?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 208

Answers (1)

herman.smn
herman.smn

Reputation: 1347

If you want to install in ProgramData only when the installation type is set to per-user, then you should leave the default installation location set [AI_UserProgramFiles]. Then you should just use a custom action that sets APPDIR property to [CommonAppDataFolder]. This custom action can be added as a published event on Next button.

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Upvotes: 1

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