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

[Tigran Galoyan]

Oh, finally I found a way to fulfill my requirement. It turned out to be so
simple and I forgot about that great feature. So, there was no need to
suppress the RemoveIniValues in the InstallExecuteSequence at all. What I
need to do is to mark my component where I keep the IniFile declarations as
Permanent="yes". Then it allows me to remove particular INI entries on
install and permanent feature allows to preserve the remaining INI settings.

Thanks anyway, Shubham, for your support, appreciated,

Best,
Tigran


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Tigran Galoyan <tigran.galoyan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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