Is Microsofts MSI installer inherently flawed?
I’ve lost count of the times that an installation, uninstallation or update has failed over the years. And, usually this is because the setup has failed to find an MSI file that simply isn’t there for it to find. This is almost always a setup file from a previous installation, i.e. something that is being replaced or removed anyway. But the MSI won’t proceed because it isn’t there. That’s not too much of a bother if I’m just removing the thing, MS has a tool to get round that, but if I’m trying to install a new version and the setup fails because it can’t find the old MSI that’s just plain annoying. This has been triggered because today I got fed up with Acrobat trying and failing to install some updates. So i decided to uninstall it. And then start from scratch. But then the installer, as noted above, refused to play. Instead it gave me a message saying that it couldn’t find the file c:\users\local\adobe\setup.msi (or something like that) Well it can’t find it because it isn’t there.
