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

[Walter Dexter]

It's actually surprisingly tricky to do a hard coded path, probably because
it's not even slightly recommended. Here are some "clues" ripped out of one
of my installers.

<CustomAction Id="CA_SetCDrive"
Directory="C_DRIVE"
Value="c:\" />

<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="CA_SetCDrive" After="CostFinalize" />
</InstallExecuteSequence>

<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
   <Directory Id="C_DRIVE" Name="CDrive">
</Directory>


On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Urban Olars <urban.olars at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using a hard coded path will work in my case since the deployment will only
> be inside the company group I am working for and the environment is
> therefore controlled. Since I am new to WiX I want to take the opportunity
> to learn different aspects of it too so I am currently working on a C++
> Custom Action DLL as well whích I hope will return "C:\Users\Public" for
> me. We will see if I can get it to work...
>
> Thank you all!
>
> /Urban
>
> 2016-12-11 20:50 GMT+01:00 Walter Dexter <wfdexter at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > /Urban Olars
> > > >
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