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Windows Installer/Visual Studio Installer - Prevent File reinstall

Hello experts.

I hope you can help.

I have a program that i have packaged with Visual Studio Installer. In the setup package i want to include files that may or may not be used. the files packaged with the installer include some reports. In the program the reports come up in a listbox that allows the user to select the report he/she wants to run. Some of these reports will never be used and therefore could be removed from the list.

However, when i rename or delete the report, windows installer wants to put the file back.

is there some way to prevent this. can i set an option in the installer build environment in interdev for each file i want to behave this way, or do i have to edit the package with orca after it is build, and if so what do i edit.

Thanks in advance.
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I think you need to ask this in vb.net or one of the .net group because you are using MSI. I wish I had the answer you need because I had a similar problem but isn’t that the whole point of using the MSI. I thought the Window Installer keeps track of what files were installed and if it becomes missing then it will copy a new file to replace the missing one or wrong version. I have a lot to learn when this company switches to MSI.





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Fosterjo - I have been working on this for three weeks and i had no idea it was that simple. Thank You

Matti - i gave you 20 points for suggesting an uninstall because it would have kept me wondering why Fosterjo's suggestion wasn't working.

Great Job Both of you. i wish there were more points to give. but i only have 500.