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[Alphathree33]

My problem is very simple:

I'm running a major upgrade that uninstalls and then reinstalls my application.

Before the uninstall, I copy some files to FOLDER_TEMP (in a subdirectory that I create).

I then perform the uninstall (RemoveExistingProducts) and try to copy the files back... but by the time I go to do that, they're gone!

I thought that maybe it removes them because they're in the TEMP folder (although I have no idea why it would be so eager to do this halfway through the upgrade), so I tried FOLDER_PERSONAL. Nope. Poof. Gone.

What's going on here?

(I've watched C:\Doc & Settings\...\temp with windows explorer, and I actually see my files appear and then disappear)

[luke_s]

Try running the upgrade with verbose logging turned on.

msiexec /I "msipackage.msi" /L*V c:\msilog.txt

It is quite possible that your first install is actually removing the files. You should be able to see this from the install log.

[Alphathree33]

And if it WERE removing the files, what would I do about it?

[luke_s]

If it is removing the files, you will need to work out where this is coming from and look at fixing it

Its really hard to give advise from here since i don't know much about the install.