odd problem with installdir

Maurizio
14th May 2007 10:37 UTC

odd problem with installdir
Hi,
I have been using NSIS for quite a while now and it has been working wonderfully. However today I found out that on some computers something strange happens.
On most computers, including my own, when I am prompted for the destination folder, I get "C:\Program Files\My application name v6", which is correct; on other computer, I end up with some other, completely random paths, as "C:\Program Files\SigmaTel\C-Major Audio" for example.
installdir is setup as

InstallDir"$PROGRAMFILES\\Myapplicationnamev6"

in the script, so I do not understand where is the random path name coming from.
Any idea?
Thanks in advance for your help, much appreciated.
Maurizio

engine
14th May 2007 11:00 UTC

Did you use InstallDirRegKey to retrieve the path of previous installation?

Maurizio
14th May 2007 11:18 UTC

InstallDirRegKey in my script is set as

InstallDirRegKeyHKLM"${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}"""

am i missing something?
this happens on computers which have never seen my application...so there is no previous installation path.

*runs to read docs on InstallDirRegKey*

engine
14th May 2007 11:53 UTC

Check the iffy computer to find out whether there is a regkey conflicts with your ${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}.