Working with Synchronized Folders

The Synchronized Folders functionality from Advanced Installer allows you to specify a folder in your project which is synchronized to a folder on your hard-drive. This means that every time a project is open, built or you press the [ Refresh ] button in the Files and Folders page, the content of that folder is synchronized to the content of the source folder on disk.

Any modification made to the synchronized folder on the disk will also be made to the synchronized folder in your project. For example, if you add some files in the synchronized folder on the disk they will be added automatically to the synchronized folder in your project.

You can also add non-synchronized content to a synchronized folder, as it will be ignored on refresh because its source is outside of the synchronized folder source.

To set a folder as synchronized, use the Folder Properties Dialog dialog.

Synchronized folders shouldn't be used in patches because they might generate new components when their contents are re-added to the project.