Copying All files and Subfolders from _Download to another location

Content Authoring
1

(imported topic written by ajdyer200091)

Hi,

I am using the software deployment wizard and it sucessfully extracts the installation files and folders to the _Download folder on the local machine and the install runs sucessfully.

The install needs to reboot to finish the install. The problem is the _Download folder gets cleared out after the reboot so the install program cannont find the files needed to complete the install.

I guess there would be 2 solutions. Could someone tell me how to do either or both?

Method 1

1: Create a new folder on the local drive.

2: Copy all files and subfolders from the _Download folder to the new folder

3: Run the Msiexec from the new folder.

Method 2

1: Extract the Installation files to a folder other than _Download

Thanks for you help

Alan

2

(imported comment written by JackCoates91)

The Fixlets generated by the new Software Distribution tool use a parameter:

// All SWD Files will go into a folder in the clients __BESData folder. This folder get cleared on every restart. 
parameter "baseFolder" =  "__Download\"

Then you can move the files before running them:

// Create specified zero-byte files. 
waithidden cmd.exe /C copy /y NUL "{parameter "baseFolder"}PatchRawsTemplate.lst"  >NUL
// Move files into subfolders and unescape file names
move "__Download\772ABF7101A90CC211584AC87590CF59BD166060" "{parameter "baseFolder"}1028.mst"

The key is then to cd into that new directory so your CWD is correct:

// Use .bat to set working directory to packages root, for setup command.
createfile until _end_
@ECHO OFF
cd "{parameter "baseFolder"}"
"Setup.exe" /s
_end_
 
move __createfile run.bat
3

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

For Method 1, do the following steps:

Create the target directory. After your download has been extracted, run this line, then execute your installer in the target path.

wait cmd /C xcopy /y /s /c /i __Download*.*

4

(imported comment written by ajdyer200091)

Thanks Guys I’ll try them out. As always, everyone here is great.

5

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

I think there might be a problem with the SWD “move” action. I’ve created a task with the SWD Dashboard and would like to change to a different “baseFolder”. That is I would like to run my install from a folder that I’ve created on the root of C:\ rather than the __Download folder.

I’ve modified the action as below:

waithidden cmd.exe /C md C:\Installs\Office

parameter “baseFolder” = “C:/Installs/Office/”

In my action I have 2 files and one big compressed file. The 2 stand alone files get moved into C:\Installs\Office OK as well as the files are are NOT in subfolders of the compressed file. However subdirectories of the compressed file are NOT copied to C:\Installs\Office and are left in the __Download folder.

It would seem that the “//move all the extracted files and folders to our new folder” does not actually included subfolders of compressed files!!

6

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve filed a bug on it.

I think the action relies on the extract command to deal create the proper folders and place the files, however i believe the clients extract command can only extract things to the __download folder. You could probably work around this by not archiving your files… though something like office probably has too many separate files for that to be reasonable

-Zak

7

(imported comment written by Masso91)

I’ve also been doing some Office packages like that recently without any issues using:

parameter “baseFolder” = “C:\Sourcehost\Package_Name”

dos rmdir /S /Q “{parameter “baseFolder”}”

dos mkdir “{parameter “baseFolder”}”

Double checked after reading this, but compressed subfolders and files showed up fine on the host.