zoomzoom
24th February 2009 07:41 UTC

can the uninstaller compress files natively?
hi all,

when i call my uninstaller i want to backup/archive some files prior to the uninstaller deleting them.

is there a build-in way to compress files called from the uninstaller? or would i have to package a command line compression tool and use execwait to call the tool and compress the files?

Thanks for your help!

Comperio
24th February 2009 17:25 UTC

You might find a plugin to to this:
http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Category:Plugins

Or, you can try the command-line version of 7-zip that you can extract and use to build compressed files during the install.