[wix-users] Create folder directly under C-Users-Public

Urban Olars urban.olars at gmail.com
Sat Dec 10 02:31:19 PST 2016


I am trying to build an msi.
If this will require me to do a lot of custom coding or whatever, I am
still interested to learn how to do that.

Thanks!

2016-12-08 21:06 GMT+01:00 Phill Hogland <phill.hogland at rimage.com>:

> I don't know if doing this is advisable, as it seems like the OS wants you
> to use one of the predefined folders, but I expect that any advice would
> have to start with knowing more about what you are planing to use in wix.
>
> Burn or just an MSI?
>
> If Burn, WixStdBA or custom ba?
>
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> Subject: [wix-users] Create folder directly under C-Users-Public
>
> I want to install some non-executable files to C:\Users\Public\<My
> folder>\. How can I create a folder  under C:\Users\Public?
> It is no problem to retrieve the path "C:\Users\Public\Documents" through a
> variable but then I somehow need to remove "\Documents" from that string.
> Can that be achieved somehow with help of the commands in Wix or do you
> have any other advice for solving my problem?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for the help.
>
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