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We'll take a closer look- it should indeed include the new directories even if no files are being placed in them.

Thanks,
Bob

FYI... I tried again and this time I put some garbage txt files in those empty directories and finished the the Repackager wizard. It must have noticed those occupying directories because it worked for me this time. Might be a bug in the program.

Ok... Is it just me not knowing how to use this program or making assumptions I shouldn't. I have it band-aided with the junk files in the directories referenced above, so I think I'm home free, so I recreate the project to include an ini files it creates after launching the software to point to some data paths. I then finish the wizard of the Repackager to find that it does not see those files (those are definitely file in existance and are bigger then 0k). Shouldn't the software look at all files regardless of if they are of size or extention?

Yes it should detect any changes (including newly created empty directories). The size and extension should not play a role at all. As long as it is a file or registry change made after the initial snapshot and before the second, the repackager should detect and include the item. The development team is looking into it now. Please continue to post any details here as it will help to ensure we understand the problem and can ensure a fix is in our official 1.0 release due very soon (still beta right now).

Thanks!
Bob

Just for giggles, I tried WinInstall LE and it worked fine. The only issue with it is instead of packaging it into one msi file, it creates the new directories, reg key, etc... outside of the msi and ties to it. I'd rather use the Repackager to get the one file if possible so I'll stay tuned.

Bob,

Does AppDeploy Repackager add to the CreateFolder table for empty folders as otherwise Windows Installer during install will remove these (empty) folders included in the package.

I'm glad you pointed this out, the current beta is not using the CreateFolder table; taking that on as a bug now.

Thanks!
Bob

NP, is it fixed now [;)]

/Kim

I just downloaded beta 2 and again, tried packaging my application with it. Seems like it did a little better job, but still skipped my empty directories which my app didn't like.

Unfortunately, in the "known issues" you'll see the creation of empty folders was still an issue in Beta 2. The hope is to release the final build today, but time will tell ;)

http://itninja.com/blog/view/appdeploy->-appdeploy-tools->-known-issues