Hi,
I have a very large project for which I'm building an installer. The installer works fine, but the uninstall of this project takes literally ten minutes. I ran the verbose uninstall with the log, and it is deleting every file separately. Provided that this project has thousands of files, this takes forever (as a reference: the uninstall log is 125k lines long). Is there a more reasonable way to delete the program? The root directory consists of about 10 files and 10 directories, and it seems much more effective to just delete the directories in one go (as in let the OS deal with how to delete a directory recursively) than to issue a separate command for every delete.
One thing I noticed is that when adding the source folders, is that it automatically registers a Component for every directory. Is there any way to indicate that this is not necessary, and that a directory can just be deleted completely on uninstall? The closest I've gotten is manually checking "Do not register with Windows Installer" for every feature (which will recursively apply it to all components), but I can't find any way to trigger that from the command line/aic.
For completeness: I'm currently using 11.5.1. If there are solutions for this problem in a more recent release, please also include that, so I can consider upgrading.