[wix-users] Disallowing installation of component: {Component GUID goes here} since the same component with higher versioned keyfile exists

[Edwin Castro]

Component rules? Perhaps your test host has leftover component registration
from an earlier install or different install sharing a component guid?

--
Edwin G. Castro



On Mon, Jan 3, 2022, 12:33 Chuck Caldwell via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> I get the message regardless of whether there are other installed
> instances or not. I have tried making sure the product code was different
> and changed the id's on the components themselves just to see if that
> helped. It didn't. I still had the same issue. Yes followed the guidelines
> on multi-instance installers.
>
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> Subject: RE: [wix-users] Disallowing installation of component: {Component
> GUID goes here} since the same component with higher versioned keyfile
> exists
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> Are you ticking the boxes from Microsoft in regards to multi-instance
> installer authoring?
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> My suspicion is that these files that are missing happen to be shared
> between multiple instances (i.e. have the same destination path / keyfile
> locations), and hence the issue.
>
>
> Regards,
> Bevan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wix-users <wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org> On Behalf Of
> Chuck Caldwell via wix-users
> Sent: Tuesday, 4 January 2022 6:47 AM
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> Cc: Chuck Caldwell <Chuck.Caldwell at WellSky.com>
> Subject: [wix-users] Disallowing installation of component: {Component
> GUID goes here} since the same component with higher versioned keyfile
> exists
>
> I have a multi instance installer. I am trying to do a major update to one
> of the instances by installing it. It removes the existing installation and
> begins the installation of the new version, but, doesn't restore all of the
> files. There are several of the subject messages in the log file, each of
> which corresponds to the missing files. I know I'm doing something wrong. I
> just can't seem to nail down what it is. Can anyone give me a clue?
>
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