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Installshield Custom Action Error

Hi,

I have a custom action that no longer exists (I deleted it and it is no-where to be seen at all in Installshield. I compile and rebuild Installshield. When I click "Run" to install the product, it gets close to the end, then spouts error #1721: Cannot execute "Run_exe.exe".

The Custom Action no longer exists and it still seems to attempt to run it.. I took it out of the list of events as well. I have no idea why is is doing this when I have completely removed it... any ideas?

-K

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If you ism file is stored in the xml format, I would open the ism file with a text editor as search for the name of the custom action. That should indicate where it is still referenced.

epotter  2010-09-08 18:35:40
If your ism is not currently stored as xml, you could create a copy of the project and convert the ism to xml.
epotter  2010-09-08 18:36:57
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Perhaps it didn't truly get deleted? Try going through InstallShield's "Direct Editor". Go to the "CustomAction" table. Right-click the custom action you want removed and select "Drop row".

William Leara  2010-09-08 18:43:51

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