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claire_s2
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January 13, 2011
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Renaming the air app

  • January 13, 2011
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Hi,

We are building the default installer for installing our Air application. After many installs and version upgrades, we want to change the application name which means changing the <filename> attribute in the descriptor file. We would like the installer to un-install the version of the app with the old name. I haven't found a way to do this. Is it possible to do without a custom installer? I wish there was an <oldfilename> field I could set

Claire

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douglas_rapp
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January 13, 2011

I believe (and you should double check this) that so long as you leave the <id> and <publisherID> tags the same, the new app should be recognized as an update to the old one and install over it. In that case it will still be in the old install location, though. I don't think there's any way to move the install location of your app without using a custom installer to uninstall the old one

Why do you need to do this anyway? There's also a <name> tag that will let you call your app whatever you want. <filename> is only used for install location and a few other things mostly invisible to the user

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