Checking if $TEMPLATES exists

[RainerHH]

I think the var $TEMPLATES does not provide the correct result.

It should provide the user's temporary directory, which is:

C:\users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates

But it delivers:

C:\users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates

[Anders]

What makes you think it is wrong?

NSIS just returns the result of a shell folder function.

[RainerHH]

so a windows error.

MS\Windows\Templates
does not exist.

File should actually come up with an error.
Can you catch file errors?

[Anders]

Windows version?

[RainerHH]

Win10

[Anders]

NSIS does a little attempt to create the folder but it is expected that your code looks like this:

SetOutPath $TEMPLATES ; Calls CreateDirectory
File MyTemplate.ext

If you do "SetOverwrite try" then File will not give any errors.

[RainerHH]

overwrite ist Default, on.

[Anders]

Could you maybe add some example code?

[RainerHH]

it's so simple
SetoutPath $Templates
File any.exe

Problem is,
Templates Path not exist
-> no error

[Anders]

SetOutPath $Templates
File "${__FILE__}"
MessageBox mb_ok "Go check $Templates"
Delete "$Templates\${__FILE__}"

Works just fine for me on Win10.

Perhaps your profile is locked down somehow? Try Process Monitor and see why it fails to create the directory.

And if I do:

SetOutPath $temp
StrCpy $OutDir "$temp\doesnotexist"
File "${__FILE__}"

I get a retry/abort/ignore messagebox.

[RainerHH]

what do you mean by works well?
The path MS \ Windows \ Templates doesn't exist, so it can't work well !?

[Anders]

SetOutPath $Templates will create it. If that somehow fails on your system then there is something strange with the ACLs in your profile.

What does the detail log on your instfiles page say?

[RainerHH]

To be honest, I still haven't figured out where to find the detail log.

Nothing can be broken with my profile, everything works perfectly.

In addition, the directory should not be created at all. I Wish a Error If not exist.

[Anders]

Well, then I don't understand what you want. The directory has to exist if you want to extract a file there.

[RainerHH]

yes

[RainerHH]

IfFileExists
ist usable

[Anders]

IfFileExists "$templates\*" ...

but it makes no sense to check. Not all of the special folders exist by default, you just create the folder if you are installing a template file.

[RainerHH]

ok thanks for your efforts!