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Asked: 2026-05-25T03:03:27+00:00

I have multiple config files (for different environments). During install user get to select

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I have multiple config files (for different environments). During install user get to select the environment, and based on that correct files are copied. I want to delete the extra files that are not used.
I am using but it doesn’t seem to be working. I don’t get any errors as such, in the log I see action getting executed but files are not deleted. Can anyone please point what I am doing wrong?

  <Component Id="RemoveFiles" Guid="C5D634C2-744E-4CA5-BB44-F3DE88482AB5">
    <RemoveFile Id="RemoveConfigs" Name="???_*.config" On="install" />
  </Component>

My RemoveFile table also looks like 

FileKey                 Component           FileName                    DirProperty InstallMode
RemoveExtraConfigFiles  RemoveExtraFiles    p6wjlh9a.con|Web_*.config   INSTALLDIR  1

Still it’s not deleting anything

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  1. Editorial Team

    RemoveFile or CopyFile always run before InstallFiles, and it finds no files in the install directory, hence it fails.

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