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

[Rob Mensching]

Is it in this list: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/manual/v3/customactions/osinfo.html

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From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Walter Dexter
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2016 11:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [wix-users] Create folder directly under C-Users-Public

I suppose you'd have to write a custom action that takes whatever property defines c:\users\public\documents and sets a custom property to c:\users\public, then use that property for a directory.

At least, that's the only thing I can think of offhand.

The MSIs I create target a population of around 26,000 internal devices that are all virtually identical, so I'd just define c:\users\public as a hard-coded path. If you're targeting the general public that's a bad plan as you can't safely assume that the C: drive even exists.

On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Urban Olars <urban.olars at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> on behalf 
> > of Urban Olars <urban.olars at gmail.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2016 12:56:45 PM
> > To: wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org
> > 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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