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Remove needs more disk space than install !


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jsp

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Posted 22 November 2001 - 09:53

Hi,
Test team met a very strange behavior on an installation I developped few mounth ago:
My soft needs 30Mo for it to be installed but when you want to uninstall it, it requires 100Mo !!!
Has anymone an explanation?
Is there a workaround?
JSP

Ian Blake

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Posted 22 November 2001 - 10:44

30 Mb for files currentlly installed / Rollback+
30 Mb for files that might be installed (Uninstallation is an install action) +
30 Mb for unpacking files from compressed msi +
10 Mb for luck.

I don't know either.



mgama

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Posted 27 November 2001 - 02:38

Do you have a lot of custom actions?  Are they deferred custom actions?  Are they called multiple times?  

How big is the .msi file when it gets cached in the C:\winnt\installer\ directory?