ehsansad
21st June 2012 14:27 UTC

CreateDirectory not working
This code dose not make the directory?

CreateDirectory $ProductDirState/EDMproducts/EDMserver/EDMdbServer/database/$mySlotName

Can someone tell me why?

demiller9
21st June 2012 16:02 UTC

It probably needs the other slash ( \ ) in the path.

ehsansad
21st June 2012 16:08 UTC

this is the second attempt the first one was like this

CreateDirectory $ProductDirState\EDMproducts\EDMserver\EDMdbServer\database\$mySlotName

I think it has to do with the parameters, maybe it can not understand them at runtime?

demiller9
21st June 2012 16:24 UTC

It can understand variables like those. What values have you put in them? The $ProductDirState should begin with a local drive (like C:\). Does your installer run with enough rights (Admin) for the location you want to create the directory in?

Anders
21st June 2012 17:30 UTC

Use MessageBox to verify that the path looks correct, if it still fails; try running Process Monitor

ehsansad
22nd June 2012 07:40 UTC

I'm testing it on my developer PC which I run as admin. The $ProductDirState is basically something like C:\some_folder or some other directory.

BreezeUADN
22nd June 2012 08:31 UTC

You better check it with messageBox because it can be ${ProductDirState} for example, or it may be in a section/function that never runs because of some failed condition

ehsansad
22nd June 2012 11:29 UTC

Fixed, thanks a lot. It was a combination of bad checking and the slash!, this one I don't understand, shouldn't CreateDirectory() work with both '/' and '\' ?

Afrow UK
22nd June 2012 11:38 UTC

Why? We're on Windows not Unix. Using / instead of \ is really a code error and ought not to work.

Stu