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My company has had numerous crashes reported to windows error reporting due to what looks like an install problem. The logs for our installs are typically in the windows\temp directory. I would like to include the install log file as a "Request Additional Files" entry, however there doesn't seem to be any way to get to a subdirectory of the list of environmental Variables that are provided. The windows temp directory is not in the list of values that you can work from, so I am stuck.

In general, I don't understand how it is possible to get at almost anything of use via the "Request Additional Files". For example, the %programfiles% directory shouldn't contain any useful files, they should be in a subdirectory for your product. What am I missing?

Kate Gregory
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I have no idea if this works but could you try %programfiles%/../../ (or something similar) using the know location/depth of the programfiles folder (or which ever variable you use) and navigate up to the root (by having the correct number of "../") and the add your extra from there?

So to get to C:\TempData you might have something like:

%programfiles%/../TempData

One thing to consider is that this path might vary on different versions of Windows...

Like I said, this is a suggestion...

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  • I just tested this but it does not work. Winqual does not allow the following characters: "*/:?"\<>|;" Which is a bit of a pain. – AidanO Dec 01 '11 at 11:50