Installshield LE is not updating the files while attempting upgrade - installshield-le

I've spent literally the last 5 hours around this, and can't get it to work.
I've done everything it's said in similar questions.
Change the ProductCode, keep the old UpgradeCode, Change product version.
Again and again. It doesn't replace the updated .exe file it's supposed to.
What am I missing?
Edit: I also have doublechecked the .exe build in visual studio, there it's builded and working properly. Only when I run the setup that's supposed to copy it to install folder, and only then it fails, keeping the old .exe file there, and not updating.

Does the exe on the target system have the same or higher file version than the exe you are installing? Windows installer will not overwrite a file that has a higher file version then the file it is installing.
look at the install log. search for the component name, check the Request/Action state. Is the state set to "Local"? Also search for the file name to see if msiexec tried to copy it.

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Kentico | Upgrade tool fails to find website sln file

I am having difficulty using the upgrade tool for my website which is version 7.0.5354.21135 in my attempts to upgrade to version 10.
I ran the Kentico Upgrade\CodeUpgrade100\Tool>CodeUpgrade.exe file on my sln project file but it returned the following error 'Solution file not found'. I have changed the file structure of my project and the name and location of the CMS folder which might be the cause? (I directed cmd prompt to new file name/location i.e. not the inetpub/wwwroot folder)
I also tried to reinstall Kentico 7 and its 7.0.53 Hotfix in an attempt to upgrade a fresh install but my installation failed.
I am trying to upgrade my local development site from 7.0.5354.21135 up to 10 to test if any issues would result in such an upgrade (plan to do so in near future with live site).
UPDATE:
I moved files back to original inetpub folder and renamed sln project to 'WebProject.sln' but am still seeing the following error:
This is a newly created sln project file from original site files in VS13. Do I have to alter something else to get this new sln project file to work?
Thx
For v7 if you made changes to your solution as a whole meaning, moving your .sln file outside of the root of the website, you will need to modify your solution to place it back in there. Also make sure your .sln file is either named "WebProject.sln" or "WebApp.sln"
Solution was to download a fresh version7 install, copy across my local dev site files, open in VS and resave WebProject.sln or equivalent project. Then I built project and refactored through various redundant member objects removed from version 8

I cannot Uninstall Tcl from my linux system

I installed tcl to learn it, however, I installed all the files in the wrong location. I am trying to uninstall it, But the uninstall file does not work. I am trying to carry out the instructions form their website:
To uninstall ActiveTcl, run the "uninstall.tcl" script that is located in the directory where you extracted the ActiveTcl archive. Note that you must use the "wish" in the distribution you wish to uninstall. For example:
% /path/Tcl/bin/wish /path/Tcl/lib/ppm/log/ActiveTcl/uninstall_ActiveTcl.tcl
stored, by default, in the directory /lib/ppm/log/ActiveTcl. You must use the wish interpreter from the distribution you wish to uninstall. Ensure that you do not run the uninstall script from a directory that will be removed during the uninstallation.
For example:
% /path/Tcl/bin/wish /path/Tcl/lib/ppm/log/ActiveTcl/uninstall_ActiveTcl.tcl
Note: if you are uninstalling both ActiveTcl and Tcl Dev Kit, uninstall Tcl Dev Kit before uninstalling ActiveTcl.
There is no uninstall_ActiveTcl.tcl. I do see an "uninstall" file but it does not have an extension, and I do not know how to run it.
Any help is appreciated
Thank you
Try editing the file to a uninstall.tcl file and see if that works. Take a back-up first though. Because we might need that file later
I re-installed it in a new location, compared the files that were installed between the old and the new location and deleted the file sin the old location. Unfortunately I could not delete many of the hidden files, as I did not know if they were there originally or if they belonged to Tcl. I am really surprised and disappointed there is no easy way to uninstall tcl properly.
I strongly suspect that you should uninstall ActiveTcl as follows:
Open a command prompt
Change directory to where you found the install file - e.g.
$ cd path_to_Tcl_installation/bin
Run the file
$ ./uninstall
On linux systems, you don't need any particular file extension in order to be able to run a file.
I don't know CentOS but a little googling led me to a forum thread that describes how to open a command prompt.
Good luck

Installing Emacs Emulation keybindings -- Invalid VSIX package

I'm trying to install the extension for Visual Studio 2012 that allows emacs key-bindings.
I'm following through the steps here:
Emacs Keybindings in Visual Studio 2012 or 2013
I'm up to step 5:
Run the vsik file as administrator. This is required so the extension
can write Emacs.vsk into the program files folder. I wasn't sure the
best way to do this so I ran a command prompt as admin and then
executed start emacsemulations.vsik from the prompt.
So, running emacsemulations.vsix from an administrator command prompt,
I get the following error "This VSIX package is invalid because it does not contain the file extension.vsixmanifest at the root."
I'm not changing any of the file names inside the package.
I'm thinking this may have something to do with how windows zips up the file -- I'm able to recreate the problem simply by unzipping and rezipping the EmacsEmulation.vsix file without changing the contents of the vsix package.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix, or even better, the actual updated vsix file itself, I'd be very grateful!
The issue you have relies on the way you are zipping your file, what you should do is zip all files inside the folder you created (in this case, "EmacsEmulations") when you unzipped it.
Step into the EmacsEmulations folder.
Select all files.
Add to .zip
Rename the .zip output to EmacsEmulations.vsix
I'm trying to get this extension to work too, so good luck!

Why is Nuget trying to access my SVN files?

I'm trying to update the Nuget packages in a solution I have, but this is what it does for all of them when I try to update
Successfully installed 'knockoutjs 2.2.1'.
Updating 'knockoutjs' from version '2.2.0' to '2.2.1' in project 'MyProject'.
Directory 'Scripts\.svn\text-base' is not empty. Skipping...
Directory 'Scripts\.svn' is not empty. Skipping...
Successfully removed 'knockoutjs 2.2.0' from MyProject.
Successfully added 'knockoutjs 2.2.1' to MyProject.
Access to the path '(solution path)\packages\knockoutjs.2.2.0\Content\Scripts\.svn\text-base\knockout-2.2.0.debug.js.svn-base' is denied.
Access to the path '(solution path)\packages\knockoutjs.2.2.0\Content\Scripts\.svn\text-base\knockout-2.2.0.js.svn-base' is denied.
Access to the path '(solution path)\packages\knockoutjs.2.2.0\Content\Scripts\.svn\all-wcprops' is denied.
Access to the path '(solution path)\packages\knockoutjs.2.2.0\Content\Scripts\.svn\dir-prop-base' is denied.
...
It pretty much does that for every SVN file. Then says it wasn't properly uninstalled and I need to restart Visual Studio for the changes to take effect, but that doesn't solve anything. I have to manually clear out the files and remove the .deleteme file that gets created.
I also tried running Visual Studio 2012 as Administrator but that didn't change anything. I also have full permissions on my Windows 7 machine to the entire project.
I thought .svn folders were supposed to be ignored by Nuget? Is it trying to delete the older package folder? I'm fine with it taking out all the content files, as long as it leaves the .svn folder alone. I can always mark the files as deleted on the next commit.
Also, I know I can run Nuget without commiting the packages to source control, but I don't want to do that. The feature isn't enabled and the checkbox that lets Nuget download missing packages is not checked. So if it thinks that source control integration is disabled I don't know why.

InnoSetup: "The volume for a file has been externally altered"

InnoSetup appears to be corrupting my executable when compiling the setup project.
Executing the source file works fine, but executing the file after installation produces Win32 error 1006 "The volume for a file has been externally altered".
I've tried disabling compression and setting various flags, to no avail.
Has anyone experienced this?
UPDATE
Okay there's been some twists to the situation:
At the moment, I can even manually copy a working file to the location it is installed to and get "The volume for a file...". To be clear: I uninstall the application, create the same folder and paste the files there and run.
UPDATE 2
Some more details for those that want it:
The InnoSetup script is compiled by FinalBuilder using output from msbuild, also executed by FinalBuilder, running on my machine with XP SP3. The executable is a C# .Net assembly compiled in configuration Release|AnyCPU. The file works when executed in the folder the Install Script takes it from. It produces the same behaviour on an XP Virtual Machine. The MD5 hashes of the source file and the installed file are the same.
Ok, I just received this same error. I have a config which my executable uses. I looked in my folder a million times - but finally notice the config file was zero length. I corrected the config and the error stopped occurring.
Check the simplest things first... good lucK!
ERROR_FILE_INVALID
1006 (0x3EE): The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid.
I suspect you're having this issue after moving the files to a network share. It seems to me that what's happening is you have an open file-handle - possibly to a temporary file you are creating - and then some other process (perhaps running on a different host) is coming along and renaming or deleting that file or its' parent directory tree.
So my advice is:
Try installing to a local directory
Run after an anti-virus scan, in
safe-mode or on a different machine
to see if there isn't some
background nasty changing
volume/directory properties while
your program is running.
Make sure the program itself isn't doing anything weird with the volume or directory tree you're working with.
Never seen that before. I've got a few questions and suggestions:
- Are you signing the EXE during the compile of the setup? If so, try leaving that part out.
- WHat OS are you installing on or does it happen on all machines you've tried?
- Run the install with the /LOG="c:\install.log" option and post the log. It might show something happening during install.
- Run a byte compare or MD5 check on the source EXE and the installed EXE. Are they the same? Do they have the same version resource?

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