[wix-users] Issue with RemoveFile taking a long time

[Leor Greenberger]

That extension works beautifully! Thank you very much.

If I could bother you about one more issue I noticed:

Action start 16:00:45: InstallValidate.
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Modifying
CostingComplete property. Its current value is '0'. Its new value:
'1'.
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: BindImage
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: ProgId
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: PublishComponent
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: SelfReg
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Extension
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Font
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Class
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: Icon
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2205 2:  3: TypeLib
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:00:45:583]: Note: 1: 2727 2:
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:03:02:830]: Note: 1: 2727 2:
MSI (s) (C8:60) [16:03:02:830]: Doing action: InstallInitialize

Any idea what would cause the second "Note: 1: 272 2:" to take close
to 3 minutes to process? This may no longer be an issue because after
I rebuilt the installer to use your extension and did a clean install,
I did not see this happen anymore. I don't know if possibly it was
related to the REMOVEFILE action in the previous installer.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 11:22 PM Nir Bar <nir.bar at panel-sw.com> wrote:
>
> Seems like you have some 300k files which Windows Installer takes long to process.
>
> Try using my WiX extension, which can delete files without the processing overhead.
> https://www.nuget.org/packages/PanelSwWixExtension/
> Element 'DeletePath'- should be something like:
>
>     <PanelSW:DeletePath Id="_1" Path="[DeleteMeFolder]">REMOVE~="ALL"</PanelSW:DeletePath>
>
>
>
> --
> Nir Bar, Independent WiX Expert. Creator of-
> JetBA: WiX WPF Bootstrapper User Interface Framework
> JetBA++: WiX Native Bootstrapper User Interface Framework
> JetRummikub: Install WiX packages on remote machines
>
>