I want to create folder in specific location that is different from TARGETDIR.
I'm installing to TARGETDIR located at C:\Program Files\Company\Product.
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder" Name="PFiles">
<Directory Id="COMPANYDIR" Name="Company">
<Directory Id="PRODUCTDIR" Name="Product">
<Component Id="libraries" Guid="XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXX" Win64="yes">
<File Id="library.dll" Name="library.dll" Source="library.dll" />
</Component>
<Directory Id="example" Name="example">
<Component Id="example" Guid="XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXX" Win64="yes">
<File Id="EXAMPLE.EXE" Name="example.exe" Source="example.exe" />
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
Using this code will create folder C:\Program Files\Company\Product\example.
My goal is to create folders for example at D:\Product\logs. How can I achieve that using WixEdit?
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I'm a beginner in WIX. I want to create multiple folders inside the main folder, but ending with just one folder. Can someone help me on how to create multiple folders?
<!-- Step 1: Define the directory structure -->
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY" Name="TEST">
<Directory Id="HTML" Name="HTML" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<!-- Step 2: Add files to your installer package -->
<DirectoryRef Id="APPLICATIONROOTDIRECTORY">
<Component Id="NewSHU_TM.exe" Guid="3977B09E-B696-471A-9C29-419301EDF6A0">
<File Id="NewSHU_TM.exe" Source="C:\Program Files\Debug\NewSHU_TM.exe" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<DirectoryRef Id="HTML">
<Component Id="exec.html" Guid="61D58D90-F9A3-4649-9113-6AD7B1249DE8">
<File Id="exec.html" Source="C:\Program Files\Debug\HTML\exec.html" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
<File Id="exec_001.html" Source="C:\Program Files\Debug\HTML\exec_001.html" KeyPath="no" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- Step 3: Tell WiX to install the files -->
<Feature Id="MainApplication" Title="Main Application" Level="1">
<ComponentRef Id="NewSHU_TM.exe" />
<ComponentRef Id="exec.html"/>
<!--<ComponentRef Id="documentation.html" />-->
</Feature>
</Product>
You need to nest the directories you want to install to within TARGETDIR:
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="Example">
<Component Id="ApplicationFiles" Guid="12345678-1234-1234-1234-222222222222">
<File Id="ApplicationFile1" Source="example.exe"/>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
See the source for this sample here:
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/105638/A-quick-introduction-Create-an-MSI-installer-with
You need to close each "Directory" element. Please notice the endding "/>" in the "TEST" and "HTML" folder below.
The following will create (given you are adding files to these directories) the two folders at the same level under the "Example" folder:
c:\Program Files (x86)\Example\TEST and
c:\Program Files (x86)\Example\HTML
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="Example">
<Directory Id="ChildFolder1" Name="TEST" />
<Directory Id="ChildFolder2" Name="HTML" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
I have built a WiX installer for an application and in it I need to copy some files to a specific folder on the "C:" drive. I originally coded my directories like this:
<Fragment>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="MyCompanyInstall" Name="MyCompany">
<Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="$(var.ProductName)" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYROOT" Name="MyCompany" FileSource="[WindowsVolume]\MyCompany">
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYMYSPECIALFOLDERDATAFOLDER" Name="MySpecialFolder">
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYMYSPECIALFOLDERTRENDINGFOLDER" Name="Trending"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="MyCompanyProgramMenu" Name="MyCompany">
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuDir" Name="$(var.ProductName)"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="DesktopFolder"/>
</Directory>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<DirectoryRef Id="MYCOMPANYROOT">
<Component Id="CreateDirectories" Guid="60D9E460-89C8-42D2-8581-D858785A1817">
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYROOT"/>
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTDATAFOLDER"/>
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTTRENDINGFOLDER"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- trimmed -->
<DirectoryRef Id="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTDATAFOLDER">
<Component Id="FirstFile.xml" Guid="E9879B51-1C74-47BF-A475-3B77D66297E2">
<File Id="FirstFile.xml" Source="$(var.TargetDir)FirstFile.xml" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
<Component Id="SecondFile.xml" Guid="69A86F79-4596-4714-9FE7-628882ADA303">
<File Id="SecondFile.xml" Source="$(var.TargetDir)SecondFile.xml" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
<Component Id="MyCompanyMyProductHelp.pdf" Guid="D2D3CDF1-61FA-4021-8F56-F23770580AA0">
<File Id="MyCompanyMyProductHelp.pdf" Source="$(var.TargetDir)Documents\MyCompany My Product Help.pdf" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- trimmed -->
<Icon Id="$(var.ProductName)Icon.EXE" SourceFile="$(var.TargetPath)"/>
</Fragment>
But on one computer in the office I kept getting the case that the files meant for "C:\MyCompany\MySpecialFolder\" were not copied. I then tried to hard code the "C:" drive like so:
<Fragment>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="MyCompanyInstall" Name="MyCompany">
<Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="$(var.ProductName)" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYROOT" Name="MyCompany" FileSource="C:\MyCompany">
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYMYSPECIALFOLDERDATAFOLDER" Name="MySpecialFolder">
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYMYSPECIALFOLDERTRENDINGFOLDER" Name="Trending"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="MyCompanyProgramMenu" Name="MyCompany">
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuDir" Name="$(var.ProductName)"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="DesktopFolder"/>
</Directory>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<DirectoryRef Id="MYCOMPANYROOT">
<Component Id="CreateDirectories" Guid="60D9E460-89C8-42D2-8581-D858785A1817">
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYROOT"/>
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTDATAFOLDER"/>
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTTRENDINGFOLDER"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- trimmed -->
<DirectoryRef Id="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTDATAFOLDER">
<Component Id="FirstFile.xml" Guid="E9879B51-1C74-47BF-A475-3B77D66297E2">
<File Id="FirstFile.xml" Source="$(var.TargetDir)FirstFile.xml" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
<Component Id="SecondFile.xml" Guid="69A86F79-4596-4714-9FE7-628882ADA303">
<File Id="SecondFile.xml" Source="$(var.TargetDir)SecondFile.xml" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
<Component Id="MyCompanyMyProductHelp.pdf" Guid="D2D3CDF1-61FA-4021-8F56-F23770580AA0">
<File Id="MyCompanyMyProductHelp.pdf" Source="$(var.TargetDir)Documents\MyCompany My Product Help.pdf" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- trimmed -->
<Icon Id="$(var.ProductName)Icon.EXE" SourceFile="$(var.TargetPath)"/>
</Fragment>
But I got the same results.
Does anyone know why this won't work on only one machine?
Well I stumbled upon a fix. I don't understand why this fixes it, but it now works.
The key was to add the line:
<SetDirectory Id="MYCOMPANYROOT" Value="[WindowsVolume]MyCompany"/>
I would have thought that the "FileSource" attribute in the "Directory" tag would have done the trick, but alas it didn't.
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYROOT" Name="MyCompany" FileSource="[WindowsVolume]MyCompany">
I don't really understand why I needed this. If someone could explain, I would appreciate it.
Code follows:
<Fragment>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="MyCompanyInstall" Name="MyCompany">
<Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="$(var.ProductName)" />
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYROOT" Name="MyCompany" FileSource="[WindowsVolume]MyCompany">
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYMYSPECIALFOLDERDATAFOLDER" Name="MySpecialFolder">
<Directory Id="MYCOMPANYMYSPECIALFOLDERTRENDINGFOLDER" Name="Trending"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="MyCompanyProgramMenu" Name="MyCompany">
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuDir" Name="$(var.ProductName)"/>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="DesktopFolder"/>
</Directory>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<!-- New line -->
<SetDirectory Id="MYCOMPANYROOT" Value="[WindowsVolume]MyCompany"/>
<!-- -->
<DirectoryRef Id="MYCOMPANYROOT">
<Component Id="CreateDirectories" Guid="60D9E460-89C8-42D2-8581-D858785A1817">
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYROOT"/>
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTDATAFOLDER"/>
<CreateFolder Directory="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTTRENDINGFOLDER"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- trimmed -->
<DirectoryRef Id="MYCOMPANYMYPRODUCTDATAFOLDER">
<Component Id="FirstFile.xml" Guid="E9879B51-1C74-47BF-A475-3B77D66297E2">
<File Id="FirstFile.xml" Source="$(var.TargetDir)FirstFile.xml" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
<Component Id="SecondFile.xml" Guid="69A86F79-4596-4714-9FE7-628882ADA303">
<File Id="SecondFile.xml" Source="$(var.TargetDir)SecondFile.xml" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
<Component Id="MyCompanyMyProductHelp.pdf" Guid="D2D3CDF1-61FA-4021-8F56-F23770580AA0">
<File Id="MyCompanyMyProductHelp.pdf" Source="$(var.TargetDir)Documents\MyCompany My Product Help.pdf" KeyPath="yes" Checksum="yes"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- trimmed -->
<Icon Id="$(var.ProductName)Icon.EXE" SourceFile="$(var.TargetPath)"/>
</Fragment>
Have a read up on TARGETDIR, you will see that this links to ROOTDRIVE, which states:
If ROOTDRIVE is not set at a command line or authored into the
Property table, the installer sets this property. During an
administrative installation the installer sets ROOTDRIVE to the first
connected network drive it finds that can be written to. If it is not
an administrative installation, or if the installer can find no
network drives, the installer sets ROOTDRIVE to the local drive that
can be written to having the most free space.
So I suspect that on the single machine which you are having issues with, that it has another local drive with more space than c:
I had a similar problem.
On one of our machines WIX installed on E drive (flash disk) instead of C dive.
I have come across this answer which solve my problem: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8591139/1891969
Just replace the TARGETDIR value with "C:\".
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<Custom Action="FormatTargetDirectory" After="CostFinalize">NOT Installed</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<CustomAction Directory="TARGETDIR" Value="[DRIVE_NAMES]" Id="FormatTargetDirectory"/>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="InetPub" Name="inetpub">
<Directory Id="wwwroot" Name="wwwroot">
<Directory Id="InstallDir" Name="AppName">
And also Have a dialog to getting the path from the user,but still after installation it goes to wwwroot folder.?
I'm using <UIRef Id="WixUI_Mondo" />, where you choose custom, you can browse and install to any directory.
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFiles64Folder">
<Directory Id="CompanyDir" Name="Company">
<Directory Id="INSTALLFOLDER" Name="IPDev">
also make sure you have a line like so before the componenets:
<DirectoryRef Id="INSTALLFOLDER">
<Directory Id="dir_SampleImages_0" Name="SampleImages">
<Component Id="comp_SAMPLE_IMAGES_0" DiskId="1" KeyPath="yes" Guid="2FCE9C4A-47B7-4473-BF6E-8ED14C5A9AB0">
<File Name="Aptina1.raw" Id="file_SAMPLE_IMAGES_0" Source="..\Import\SampleImages\Aptina\400lux_DPonblueEdgehor_bigred0005.raw" />
</Component>
If you have any other problems please share your full code
I am getting the error
"The directory TestDir is in the user profile but is not in the RemoveFile table"
Basically I want my app to install into the local Common "All Users" folder instead of the Program Files folder.
so I have my directory structure as
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="CommonAppDataFolder">
</Directory>
<Directory Id="SystemFolder"/>
<Directory Id="StartupFolder"/>
<Directory Id="DesktopFolder"/>
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuVendorFolder" Name="Orion Integration">
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="LocalAppDataFolder">
<Directory Id="ORIONDIR" Name="Orion Integration">
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="TestApp">
<Directory Id="TestDir" Name="Test">
<Component Id="BUILDINGFLOORMODELSDIR_C" Guid="A6BD61D8-FAC8-4D7D-881E-58CC2C4F9753"
SharedDllRefCount="no" KeyPath="no" NeverOverwrite="no" Permanent="no" Transitive="no"
Location="either">
<RegistryValue
Root="HKCU"
Key="Software\Orion Integration\Orion CMS"
Name="InstalledBuildingFloorModels"
Type="integer"
Value="1" />
<CreateFolder/>
<RemoveFolder Id="BUILDINGFLOORMODELSDIR" On="uninstall"/>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
...........
I have placed RemoveFIle in the compnent section and still getting errors
You need to specify a directory using the <RemoveFolder /> element.
Instead of
<RemoveFolder Id="BUILDINGFLOORMODELSDIR" On="uninstall"/>
try
<RemoveFolder Id="TestDir" On="uninstall"/>
I'm having trouble setting the working directory of a shortcut created as part of a WiX script. Here are the basics:
<!-- create a start menu shortcut. -->
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder" Name="My Name">
<Component Id="ApplicationShortcut" Guid="822A26AF-5231-4EDA-A18D-5DF15020BD94">
<Shortcut Id="ApplicationStartMenuShortcut"
Name="My Name"
Description="My Description"
Target="[INSTALLLOCATION]My.exe"
WorkingDirectory="INSTALLLOCATION" />
<RemoveFolder Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder" On="uninstall"/>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
<!-- Install the app. -->
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="My Name">
<Component Id="ProductComponent" Guid="4740357A-69D3-4626-A0F7-D0667C93A2CE">
<File Id="My.exe" Name="My.exe" Source="My.exe" />
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
This jives with examples I've seen, and the shortcut gets created, and it points to the right exe, but the shortcut has no working directory specified, and so the app doesn't find its local resources.
You don't need to say [INSTALLLOCATION] because the ShortCut table defines the WkDir column describes "The name of the property that has the path of the working directory for the shortcut."
I would reccomend trying this:
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder" Name="My Name">
</Directory>
</Directory>
<!-- Install the app. -->
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="My Name">
<Component Id="ProductComponent" Guid="4740357A-69D3-4626-A0F7-D0667C93A2CE">
<File Id="My.exe" Name="My.exe" Source="My.exe" />
<Shortcut Id="ApplicationStartMenuShortcut"
Advertise="yes"
Name="My Name"
Description="My Description"
Directory="ApplicationProgramsFolder"
WorkingDirectory="INSTALLLOCATION">
<Icon Id="My.exe" SourceFile="My.exe" />
<Shortcut>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
I think you need square brackets around your INSTALLLOCATION in the working directory attribute.