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Wix: Can I manually launch the RemoveFolderEx element from a user action?

I am wondering if it is possible to manually launch the RemoveFolderEx element from a custom action. I guess maybe not, but someone might know a way that I don't know about.

My problem is that I want to run the RemoveFolderEx element, but only in true UNINSTALL, but my program executes it when updating, since I installed it to remove before reinstalling.

I tried this with this Wix method : the state does not work however it did not work and still worked on reinstallation.

The only thing I can think of is the ability to manually remove RemoveFolderEx from a custom action, which, as I know, I run at the right point and only with a true delete. Perhaps my custom action might use the C ++ dll and then manually add the command to the MSI, but if I go this far, it is possible that I will completely write the deletion logic.

Thank. Nile

EDIT: I finally got this working, here is a wix example to show what I did.

<Property Id='P.REMOVEDATAFOLDER' Secure='yes' />

<DirectoryRef Id="DATADIR">        
    <Component Id="C.RemoveDataFolder" Guid="myguid" KeyPath="yes">
        <util:RemoveFolderEx On="uninstall" Property="P.REMOVEDATAFOLDER" />
    </Component>
</DirectoryRef>

<CustomAction Id="CA.SetDataFolder" Property="P.REMOVEDATAFOLDER" Value='[DATADIR]' />

<InstallExecuteSequence>           
    <Custom Action="CA.SetDataFolder" Before="ValidateProductID" >(NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE) AND (REMOVE="ALL")</Custom>
</InstallExecuteSequence>

The P.REMOVEDATAFOLDER property is only set to true deletion immediately after reading DATADIR from the registry, but before the CostInitialize action.

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. RemoveFolderEx, , .

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, , , REMOVE="All" AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE.

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<Component Id="RemoveMyFolder">
  <Condition> REMOVE="All" AND NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE </Condition>
  <RemoveFolderEx ... />
</Component>
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