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Hi,

Could someone please help me to solve the below scenario:

I need to copy a file from My Documents folder to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Folder" at the time of Maintenance/Repair of the application in the advanced installer(First time installation works fine). And that action should take place silently. Since the CopyFile is used in ProgramFiles folder, I need administrative privileges to run the script.
The following is the current script that am using:

dim objFSO, strSource, strTarget,strTarget1
set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
userProfilePath = objShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("%UserProfile%")
strSource= userProfilePath & "\Documents\"
strTarget = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Folder\folder1\"
strTarget1 = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Folder\folder2\"


dim strTempSource, strTempTarget,strTempTarget1
set strTempSource = objFSO.GetFolder(strSource)

file=userProfilePath & "\Documents\SQLConnections.xml"

If objFSO.FolderExists(strTarget) Then
set strTempTarget = objFSO.GetFolder(strTarget)
If objFSO.FileExists(userProfilePath & "\Documents\SQLConnections.xml") Then
objFSO.CopyFile file, strTarget,True
End If
End If

If objFSO.FolderExists(strTarget1) Then
set strTempTarget1 = objFSO.GetFolder(strTarget1)
If objFSO.FileExists(userProfilePath & "\Documents\SQLConnections.xml") Then
objFSO.CopyFile file, strTarget1,True
End If
End If


After opening cmd with adminstrative rights, and when running the code on cmd, it works fine. But when I put the code in advancded installer, it doesn't works.

Thanks in advance.

Hello,

You can try to use our "Launch file" predefined custom action and check its "Run as administrator" flag.

Also, as another possible solution you can try to use our "File Copy Operation" support and see if this helps. Just go to "Files and Folders" page, select your directory under "Program Files" and in the right pane create a new file copy operation.

Let us know if this helped.

All the best,
Daniel