[wix-users] Prevent removing ini values ONLY during the UNINSTALL

[Tigran Galoyan]

Hi Shubham,

Perhaps I didn't see and missed it but I couldn't find the clue to my issue
in the link provided by you. Would you be able to enlighten with your
finding?

Thanks,
Tigran




On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 7:04 AM, Shubham Jain <shubhamjain1713 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Tigran,
>
> Please check the below link. It may help you.
> https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/alexshev/2008/
> 04/03/from-msi-to-wix-part-15-installable-items-ini-files/
>
> Best Regards,
> Shubham Jain
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:04 AM, Tigran Galoyan <tigran.galoyan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble making this work:
> >
> > *<Directory Id="INIDIR" Name="Ini">*
> >
> > *<Component Id="Ini" Guid='780D972E-66AE-4B24-A548-C108C26B0F6A' >*
> >
> > *<CreateFolder />*
> > *...*
> > *<IniFile Id="IniID" Action="removeLine" Key="InstallDir" Name="My.ini"
> > Section="Paths" Directory="INIDIR"/>*
> > *...*
> >
> > *</Component>*
> >
> > *</Directory>*
> >
> > When I *INSTALL *the InstallDir key/value pair entry is removed from the
> > existing My.ini file if it exists there. However, during *UNINSTALL *all
> > other INI parameters are also removed from My.ini file and apparently it
> > also deletes the file itself. Then I added the following:
> >
> > *<InstallExecuteSequence>*
> >
> > *<RemoveIniValues Suppress="yes">(NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE) AND
> > (REMOVE="ALL")</RemoveIniValues>*
> >
> > *</InstallExecuteSequence>*
> >
> > It helps by preventing the removal of all my INI entries during
> uninstall,
> > however, my removeLine action declaration in order to remove a
> > particular INI setting no longer works, as removal of INI settings is
> > suppressed, even though I explicitly put a condition to suppress INI
> value
> > removal only for uninstall, still it affects install as well.
> >
> > Any help is much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tigran
> >
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