Stopping APE 7 silent uninstall removing templates
Hi
I have a silent unattended installation of Adobe Premiere Elements 7 packaged without the templates installation included. The templates are installed using a separate package after.
I used the "INSTALLTEMPLATES=0" argument to stop the templates installing but my problem is that when uninstalling the main program package only, it also removes the templates.
Can I specify anywhere for this not to happen? Considering the amount of control I've been able to maintain up until now I'm sure it must be!!?
TIA
I have a silent unattended installation of Adobe Premiere Elements 7 packaged without the templates installation included. The templates are installed using a separate package after.
I used the "INSTALLTEMPLATES=0" argument to stop the templates installing but my problem is that when uninstalling the main program package only, it also removes the templates.
Can I specify anywhere for this not to happen? Considering the amount of control I've been able to maintain up until now I'm sure it must be!!?
TIA
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Posted by:
anonymous_9363
14 years ago
Is the property tested in conjunction with the special property REMOVE anywhere? If not, you will probably have to explicitly use the REMOVE property to specify each of the features which you want to be removed. That, of course, assumes that the templates are in their own, discrete feature.
Posted by:
jshand
14 years ago
Sorry I'm not sure what you mean. Where is the special property "REMOVE"? Are you talking about a table within the msi?
Posted by:
timmsie
14 years ago
REMOVE
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa371194%28VS.85%29.aspx
so you'd specify on the command line
msiexec /x {ProductCode} REMOVE=feature1;feature2;feature3 /qb
Posted by:
anonymous_9363
14 years ago
Commas, Timster, not semi-colons, to separate the list items.
Posted by:
timmsie
14 years ago
bloody microsoft, semi colons for the TRANSFORM property commas for the REMOVE property!!![:@]
Posted by:
jshand
14 years ago
Ok thanks, I can see what you mean but there are 39 features and only Two relate to the templates so is there any way to specify not to uninstall these Two rather than listing all 37 to remove?
Posted by:
jshand
14 years ago
Well just tested out a "REMOVE=Feature1" command but this still removed the templates. Any other ideas?
Posted by:
anonymous_9363
14 years ago
Take a versbose log of the uninstall. Identify which features are flagged as being for removal. They'll look like this in the log:
MSI (s) (38-90) [16:04:04:323]: Feature: {a feature name here}; Installed: Local; Request: Absent; Action:AbsentI suspect that the templates may be a child of another feature. If that parent feature is selected for removal, its children will also be removed. In that case, you'll need to specify all the children but NOT the parent.
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