Windows Installer Custom Action cannot do xcopy?

[Dave]

I'm trying to do the following xcopy from my Windows installer and it
doesn't work. I even tried running the installer as user with
credentials instead of LocalService. I'm running in 2003Server, so
its not a vista issue.

Any ideas why i cannot do this xcopy from my installer, yet it works
fine from console program?

Process kafInstallProce ss = new Process();

kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Re directStandardE rror = true;
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Us eShellExecute = false;
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Re directStandardO utput = true;
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Fi leName = @"xcopy";
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Ar guments = "/Y \"C:\\Downloads \\KAF1.2\
\KAF\\*.*\" \"C:\\Progra m Files\\KAF\\bin \"";

kafInstallProce ss.Start();

thanks for any help!

dave

[Dave]

Re: Windows Installer Custom Action cannot do xcopy?

On Dec 10, 10:33 am, Dave <djohanns...@gm ail.comwrote:

I'm trying to do the following xcopy from my Windows installer and it
doesn't work. I even tried running the installer as user with
credentials instead of LocalService. I'm running in 2003Server, so
its not a vista issue.
>
Any ideas why i cannot do this xcopy from my installer, yet it works
fine from console program?
>
Process kafInstallProce ss = new Process();
>
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Re directStandardE rror = true;
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Us eShellExecute = false;
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Re directStandardO utput = true;
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Fi leName = @"xcopy";
kafInstallProce ss.StartInfo.Ar guments = "/Y \"C:\\Downloads \\KAF1.2\
\KAF\\*.*\" \"C:\\Progra m Files\\KAF\\bin \"";
>
kafInstallProce ss.Start();
>
thanks for any help!
>
dave

One small addendum is, I'm forced to do the xcopy as I'm actually
running a third party batch file from the installer - which contains
xcopy's. i isolated the xcopy to narrow the focus of the issue at
hand.

I cannot figure this thing out.

thanks, dave