Hello Mr. _______,
I have just received an update from the PAE team regarding your issue and wanted to let you know as soon as possible.
They recommended that you use the following switch:
-d This specifies that installation files are extracted to a temporary directory, from which they are deleted when the update is complete. -d Must be first in the series of arguments.
This argument is used when using a installation kit that is packaged in a single .exe file.
Please let me know if this is of use to you and if it resolves your issue.
Give it a try and let me know if it really works.
Comment posted by Ben Rose09/03/2008 06:25:11 AM
Homepage: http://www.jaffacake.net
Thanks for sharing this, Bruce, you didn't really need to trim my name :)
So now we have 2 choices:
-d This specifies that installation files are extracted to a temporary directory, from which they are deleted when the update is complete. -d Must be first in the series of arguments.
Default This specifies that installation files are extracted to a temporary directory, from which they aren't deleted when the update is complete.
My main query remains:
Why are the install files kept on the local machine?
Why are they kept in a folder designated for temporary use?
Comment posted by Tim Tripcony09/03/2008 06:33:20 AM
@Ben, deletion used to be the default... in fact, I used to make a copy of the temporary folder on external storage (i.e. file server or NAS) during installation each time I installed a new version so that I could reinstall or install to another machine without having to perform the extraction step each time. Apparently they received enough feedback indicating that people found this to be more convenient that they switched to the new behavior. And with even laptops shipping with upwards of 100 GB nowadays, 0.5 GB of clutter left behind isn't even noticeable, unless you're using the machine for the equivalent of storing a backup of your entire DVD collection. 
Comment posted by Keith Brooks09/03/2008 06:42:05 AM
Homepage: http://www.vanessabrooks.com
Not very environmentally conscious of them is it. Recycle the old stuff is the thought, but usually during the unpacking I set it to c:\temp\lnd and then I know which dir to delete later. BUt NOW......
Comment posted by Rupert Clayton09/03/2008 07:21:09 AM
Yes, testing with 8.0.2 shows that the -d switch does really work (although the \temp\Lotus Notes folder itself is still left behind). I would expect most corporate installs to use an InstallShield transform of the basic package anyhow, so there should be no temp files to deal with. For any ad hoc installs, I guess we have the option to use -d, or to empty /temp on startup. If you want the option to run endless client reconfigurations, then you should probably put the unpacked install in a more permanent location from the start.
Comment posted by Ben Rose09/03/2008 07:32:08 AM
Homepage: http://www.jaffacake.net
@Tim - Deletion has never been the default in R8.x
Extracting a web package isn't rocket science, just unzip to the directory from where you wish to install using Winzip or equivalent. Leaving half a gig of temp files lying around in temp on a local machine isn't a solution for that...it's a sloppy workaround.
I really hope they didn't change the installer behaviour just for people who don't know how to unzip a file.
New laptops may ship with large drives but this is in response to people carrying more data than ever, it's still not difficult to fill once people have taken copies of shared drives and large databases for offline use.
My main concern isn't the volume of clutter, it just shouldn't be there no matter how small. I found .msi files for 8.0, 8.0.1 and 8.0.2 all together in my temp folder. What happens if you execute the 8.0 or 8.0.1 msi when most of the files have already been overwritten with 8.0.2? For sure it's not going to install the version you think it should.
Comment posted by Doug Bruce09/03/2008 07:49:58 AM
Having the install files on the local machine is pretty much a must if you want to do a repair from the control panel option. That's because the microsoft installer service must locate the .msi file used to perform the installation in the first place before it can do a repair.
Is it handy? Yep, when you're on a laptop in the middle of nowhere, with no-cd and the O/S crashes and then the file recovery wipes out half the notes files in 'fixing' the issue, how do you plan to continue?
Now i'm not so sure that leaving them in a temp directory is a smart move, but then i've seen systems that are 4-5 years old that have never had their temp directories cleaned.
Comment posted by Theo Heselmans09/04/2008 01:42:37 AM
Homepage: http://blog.xceed.be
Why doesn't the installer have a little checkbox:
Delete temp files after installation
Preferably ON by default (other installers don't leave their temp garbage) !
