LV8 App Builder/ Installer Support file question

[jdebuhr]

I have a couple of Applications that use support files. Some of those files are a mixture of either XLS or TXT suffix files. if I build an application with the installer and install it on a fresh system Specifying to install the support files it will do that.

Now, if I create a new installer that updates the Application itself and does not change the Support files, yet that are int he installer, If I run it on a system that the program was already installed, will it overwrite them or ignore them? Same question if the file ont he system is newer then the installer file..

to help with my question.

Assume I have a application Jeff.exe, this executable requires 3 files, config.txt, data.xls, commands.txt. All these were built into the NI App installer and installed on my Win2K and WinXP machines. on each RTE machine the config.txt is accessed during the program and resaved with changes. On my Dev machine I buld a new installer with the same files, but the Jeff.exe is changed.

I runt he installer on the Win2K and WinXP machines, will the config.txt get overwritten with the one from the installer since that one is older or will the newer copy reside ont he machine?

[Christian Mergl]

Hello jdebuhr!

I tried this like you described your problem. The .txt file gets overwriten without any warning or something. A workaround is to save the .txt file before you do a new build because of changes in the .vi and change it with the new one after the build.

Kind Regards, Christian

[jdebuhr]

I thought that was the case, but when I did it on a machine yesterday I expected it to overwrite all of the files but it seemed like one got missed, which was fine. but now I know to back up my files before running the set-up

Thanks