[[Installer] Why the MSI is copied on two folders ?]

On 10/4/2023 at 5:45 PM, Rick Brewster said:

Paint.NET only makes the copy in Program Files\paint.net\Staging.

 

It does this because it was proven to drastically reduce the number of uninstall/update failures. For some reason the other copy, which Windows itself is supposed to maintain, would get deleted. No idea why. And then the user would be left in a completely broken state, unable to uninstall, update, or reinstall.

 

It does get tagged for NTFS compression, which saves about 33%. It's not very large either way on a modern system.

 

I see. In other setup engine, that would be resolved by running the original setup again, pretty straightforward and logical to me.

So maybe the installer could automatically delete the one in C:\Windows\Installer\ then ?

Also, why aren't you using the downloaded installer ? 208MB versus 62 MB, that's way more saving than using NTFS compression.

The problem is, every MSI setup is copying its installer in C:\Windows\Installer\, so the folder can easily take several GB of (wasted) space after some times. 208 MB is huge, in fact, it's the second biggest one on that folder on my laptop.

[[Installer] Why the MSI is copied on two folders ?]

Hi,

 

Paint.net setup is copying the (uncompressed) msi in 

C:\Windows\Installer\

and

C:\Program Files\paint.net\

 

The msi is relatively big, 208 MB, so maybe this could be avoided ?

Also, maybe it could be  the compressed version,  more than three times smaller, that is stored ?

 

 

 

Keeping a complete copy of the installer permanently cached is questionable in itself, logically the user/administrator already keeps a copy if needed, but if on top of that this cached copy is duplicated...

 

Thank you.

[Can't update paint.net]

The file is not available anymore:

 

 

I was able to download it frow the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190730150729/http://download.microsoft.com:80/download/7/E/9/7E9188C0-2511-4B01-8B4E-0A641EC2F600/MicrosoftProgram_Install_and_Uninstall.meta.diagcab

 

After a while, it successfully removed the old version:

 

 

Then I was able to install 4.2.13.

 

Thank you toe_head2001.

[Can't update paint.net]

Hello, I can't update from 4.2.12: