Install msi with msiexec in a Specific Directory

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I want to install a msi with msiexec in a specific directory   I m using   msiexec  i  msi path  INSTALLDIR  C  myfolder   qb   It is not working with the  INSTALLDIR   because the msi is installing in the default path and not in my specific path

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Use INSTALLLOCATION   When you have problems  use the  lv log txt to dump verbose logs  The logs would tell you if there is a property change that would override your own options  If you already installed the product  then a second run might just update it without changing the install location  You will have to uninstall first  use the  x option

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Here s my attempt to install  msi using msiexec in Administrative PowerShell   I ve made it 7 times for each of 2 drives  C  and D   14 total  with different arguments in place of ARG and the same desirable path value   Template  PS C  WINDOWS system32 gt  msiexec  a D  users username downloads soft publisher softwarename software msi  passive ARG  D  Soft publisher softwarename   ARGs    TARGETDIR   Works OK-ish  but produces redundand ProgramFilesFolder  with an additional folders similar to the default installation path  e g  D  Soft BlenderFoundation Blender ProgramFilesFolder Blender Foundation Blender 2 81   and a copy of the  msi at the target folder   INSTALLDIR  INSTALLPATH  INSTALLFOLDER  INSTALLLOCATION  APPLICATIONFOLDER  APPDIR   When running on the same drive as set in the parameter  installs on this drive in a default folder  e g  D  Blender Foundation Blender 2 81   When running from a differnet drive  seems to do nothing

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Actually  both INSTALLPATH TARGETDIR are correct  It depends on how MSI processes this   I create a MSG using wixToolSet  In WXS file  there is  Directory  Node  which root dir maybe like the following    lt Directory Id    TARGETDIR    Name  SourceDir  gt     As you can see  Id is which you should use

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InstallShield 12     INSTALLDIR represents the main product installation directory for a   regular Windows Installer   based  or InstallScript MSI  installation    such as the end user launching Setup exe or your  msi database       TARGETDIR represents the installation directory for an InstallScript   installation  or for an administrative Windows Installer based   installation  when the user runs Setup exe or MsiExec exe with the  a   command-line switch        In an InstallScript MSI project  the InstallScript variable   MSI TARGETDIR stores the target of an administrative installation    Source  INSTALLDIR vs  TARGETDIR

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In my case all of them did not work and finally it was   msiexec  i  msinamebla msi  INSTALLFOLDER  C  test    qb   I checked the log txt as described by ezzadeen and found  INSTALLFOLDER  in there

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This one worked for me too  msiexec  i  msi path  INSTALLDIR  D  myfolder   q   I had tried two other iterations and both installed in the default C  Program Files  INSTALLDIR  D  myfolder   q  got it installed on the other drive

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for my msi  I had to set DEFAULTPATHC  D  myfolder  because later in the installation process  both INSTALLDIR and TARGETDIR were reset to reflect the value in DEFAULTPATHC

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msiexec  i  msi path  INSTALLDIR  C  myfolder   q   Only this variant worked well

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Use APPLICATIONFOLDER  path  for latest msiexec

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If you ve used Advanced Installer to build your  msi you will want to use APPDIR

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I tried TARGETDIR  INSTALLLOCATION and INSTALLDIR args and still it installed in the default directory   So I viewed the log and there is this arg where it sets the Application Directory and it is being set to default   MSI  s   50 94   09 03 13 374   Running product   BDAFD18D-0395-4E72-B295-1EA66A7B80CF   with elevated privileges  Product is assigned  MSI  s   50 94   09 03 13 374   PROPERTY CHANGE  Adding APPDIR property  Its value is  E  RMP2   MSI  s   50 94   09 03 13 374   PROPERTY CHANGE  Adding CURRENTDIRECTORY property  Its value is  C  Users Administrator     So I changed the command to have APPDIR instead of the args mentioned above  It worked like a charm   msiexec  i  path to msi  APPDIR  path to installation dir   q   Add  lv if you want to copy the installation progress to a logfile

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Use TARGETDIR instead of INSTALLDIR   Note that the quote marks for TARGETDIR property are only around the path in the case of spaces      msiexec  i  msi path  TARGETDIR  C  myfolder   qb

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This should work   msiexec  i  msi path  TARGETDIR  C  myfolder   qb

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