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[balaji4u]

Hi ,

During maintenence when the user selects the "Modify" operation to modify the exisiting installation i have exposed few features which the user can modify once he has installed, here i want some files to be overwritten and i have set the file properties to "Always overwrite" but this seems to be not working at all, the files are never overwritten , the installer copies the files only if i modify the filename of already installed files, i want the installer to overwrite always when modify is done...How to accomplish. Please help me in this regard

Thank you
Balaji

[balaji4u]

Hi ,

Can anyone please provide a solution for this...Its a very urgent requirement for my project...

[Stefan Krueger]

You would need to perform a reinstall of those features, maybe using the Reinstall control event.

[balaji4u]

Hi Stefan ,

Thanks for your reply, i tried using Reinstall event on a push button specifying the required feature to be reinstalled when modify operation is performed , but it doesnt seems to be working. The features are not getting overwritten. I have to overwrite the exe file and dll's... and i have a separate component for this and files properties are specified to be "Always overwrite" but its not working. Any idea how what might be wrong. kindly suggest.

Regards,
Balaji

[Stefan Krueger]

Did you generate a log of the install?
But maybe the best way would be to delete those files that you want to revert to their original state.

[balaji4u]

Thanks for your reply .

Before i attempt ur suggestion , i would like to give some more information on my problem. If for example , a particular file is associated with two different features ofcourse associated with two different components, and during install i install feature 1 by default and during maintenence i want the feature 2 to upgrade or when i use modify option i want to use the feature 2 to be exposed to the user(which has the same files as feature1) to select ...Now is this possible?...Can i feature 2 to overwrite feature 1 ?... becoz both features are tied to the same files...This is how my proj is designed, or is the design wrong? please suggest.

Thanks
Balaji

[Stefan Krueger]

[balaji4u]

Thanks stefan.

I will follow your suggestion and try whether i can overwrite files using modify and update you the result.

Regards.
Balaji