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Windows Installer question

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jgillin

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Oct 22, 2003
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I have an MSI I created with the Visual Studio Installer. I've set it up to work "for all users" by adding "ALLUSERS=2" to the property table (using Microsoft's free Orca tool). The only issue I'm having is that I have a "data" subdirectory within the installation directory which I use to write some XML files to. If the user who is logged in isn't the user who installed the program, and also is not the administrator for that machine, the data directory won't be "writable". Does anyone know how I can configure the MSI using any tool to get the data directory to be writeable by everyone?
Thanks for any suggestions.
 
I found that you can do this by adding a LockPermission table to the MSI (using Orca or similar tool), but didn't find any detailed info on the entries needed. If anyone has done this before, can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks
 
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