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[universalkludge]

Hi guys,

I need some files (language dlls) to be installed if they are present in
the installation package (as loose uncompressed files), so I set file
property 'Vital' = False, but during the installation "Source file not
found blah blah blah. Abort Retry Ignore" dialog pops up.

How to get rid of it (automatically ignore) and just continue the installation?

TIA

Andrew

[Stefan Krueger]

Copy the files using a custom action, or check their existance in the source loaction early in your setup and disable or deselect the respecive features/components if they aren't there.

[universalkludge]

Thank you Stefan.

That’s the only way? Does any simpler way exist?
I know it’s possible to do nearly everything using custom actions, but isn’t it an overkill?

[Stefan Krueger]

You're playing against the rules (telling Windows Installer to install files that aren't there). There's no easy way to do that. De-selecting the components would be the cleanest solution in my opinion (but could lead to problems in an admin install)

[universalkludge]

[Stefan Krueger]

But that's not the purpose of this setting. If a vital file is missing install will abort. If a non-vital file is missing, users have the option to ignore it and continue installation.

[universalkludge]

Well, probably you are right, but it’d be great to have an option to ignore silently, rather to mess with custom actions to make such a simple trick

[Stefan Krueger]

You can submit this as a feature request for a future Windows Installer version to Microsoft.