Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

Advanced Uninstall Log is a macro system provided in a NSIS header that
is able to monitor an installation and build an uninstall log file which
is used by the uninstaller to uninstall files/directories that have been
added within specific installation blocks.

This means that files which have been installed outside these blocks,
or added later either by the user or application's activities, ignored
by the uninstaller.

Moreover files that might exist into the target directory prior the current
installation, ignored as well.

More informations and download links including 2 detailed examples of usage, at wiki:

http://nsis.sf.net/Advanced_Uninstall_Log_NSIS_Header

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Registered: Aug 2005
From: Brazil

Cool, Red Wine. My suggestion is to enable multilanguage support for the messages.

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

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Originally posted by zeeh3
Cool, Red Wine. My suggestion is to enable multilanguage support for the messages.

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Registered: Jul 2003
From: germany, b-w

you definetly should wait for nsis 2.24, where a whole bunch of preprocessor enhancements will make life easier

btw: this lib looks nice!

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

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Originally posted by Comm@nder21
you definetly should wait for nsis 2.24, where a whole bunch of preprocessor enhancements will make life easier

btw: this lib looks nice!

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Registered: Oct 2006
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Thanks for writing this header Red Wine!

I needed to be able to localize the messages boxes it shows, so I made some modifications.

If you don't need to make any localizations it will work just as it did before. But if you do need to change the strings it shows this is the way to do it with my version:

code:
!define UNINSTALLOG_LOCALIZE ;if you define this you have to provide language strings to use

LangString UNLOG_HEADER ${LANG_ENGLISH} "=========== Uninstaller Log please do not edit this file ==========="
LangString UNLOG_DAT_NOT_FOUND ${LANG_ENGLISH} "${UNINST_DAT} not found, unable to perform uninstall."
LangString UNLOG_DEL_FILE ${LANG_ENGLISH} 'Delete File "$R9"?'
LangString UNLOG_DEL_DIR ${LANG_ENGLISH} 'Delete Directory "$R9"?'
LangString UNLOG_EMPTY_DIR ${LANG_ENGLISH} "Previous installation detected at $0.$\nRequired file ${UNINSTALL_LOG}.dat is missing.$\n$\nIt is highly recommended to select an empty directory and perform a fresh installation."
LangString UNLOG_ERROR_LOG ${LANG_ENGLISH} "Error in log ${UNINSTALL_LOG}."
LangString UNLOG_ERROR_CREATE ${LANG_ENGLISH} "Error creating ${UNINSTALL_LOG}."

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

Nice job TobbeSweden

You may want to add your modified header in wiki as well.

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Registered: Oct 2006
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Done. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Advanced_Uninstall_Log_NSIS_Header#Modifications

Feel free to edit/move anything you like

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Registered: Dec 2007
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Hi!

I ran into a problem with the example script ""Advanced Uninstall Log Demo". At uninstall there was a problem with removing empty directories. The code below prevented the uninstaller from hanging, but the real solution was to upgrade from Nsis 2.10 to Nsis 3.3 which solved the problem!

code:

!macro UNINSTALL.LOG_UNINSTALL_UNATTENDED
  Function un._LocateCallBack_Function_Unattended
    ....

isdir:
    RmDir "$R9"
    IfErrors +1 isdir2
    MessageBox MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_OK "Could not remove directory $R9" /SD IDOK		
    goto end
isdir2:
    IntOp $unlog_tmp_1 $unlog_tmp_1 + 1
    goto end

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Registered: Apr 2007
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Hey, Red Wine. First, I want to say thanks for your header - it should come with NSIS by default, if you ask me.
And now, the question... The header is working with experimental version of unicode NSIS, but it produces an ANSI file etc. - would it take much to create a version which is working properly with unicode? A lot of changes or ...?

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

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Originally posted by high1
Hey, Red Wine. First, I want to say thanks for your header - it should come with NSIS by default, if you ask me.
And now, the question... The header is working with experimental version of unicode NSIS, but it produces an ANSI file etc. - would it take much to create a version which is working properly with unicode? A lot of changes or ...?

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Hey, high1, thanks for your comments!
Feel free to modify it the way it suits your preferences and don't forget to contribute at wiki please

Happy new year!

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Registered: Apr 2007
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With some tinkering and a lot of help from Jim who is responsible for the NSIS Unicode patch, I got the header working. Modifying the header is trivial, and includes replacing FileRead and FileWrite calls with FileReadUTF16LE and FileWriteUTF16LE. You also need to write a BOM at the begging of the file to make it unicode. But the header uses FileJoin macro from TextFunc header, and it can not deal with unicode files, so I had to replace the call for FileJoin with a custom macro inside the header - FileJoinUTF. It is a modification of FileJoin and all the credits go to it's author. Here is the patched header :

Attachment: advuninstlog.nsh
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Registered: Mar 2008
From: Czech Republic

Thank you for the header. Looks good. Does anyone tryed it with the add / remove features section in installer?

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Registered: Aug 2008
From:

Please tell me how to customize uninstall program's directory and name using this header?

And is there someone who can explain me when these error messages appear?

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Registered: Jul 2008
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Just want to ask, what if i only want to pop-up the dialog that is only for directory excluding for the files pop-up dialog using this AdvUninstLog.nsh. thanks

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

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Originally posted by sphynx07
Just want to ask, what if i only want to pop-up the dialog that is only for directory excluding for the files pop-up dialog using this AdvUninstLog.nsh. thanks

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Registered: Jul 2008
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Thanks Red Wine.
I tried it but for no luck i could not get it. sigh...
What i wanted to do with my uninstaller is that, the message box detection for newly created folder/directory will only pop up ignoring the files inside it and once the user wants to delete the folder the uninstaller will then also automatically delete the file/s inside it.
Can you please help me on this.
Please advice...

Thanks!

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

I understand what you're trying to achieve though as I suggested above you'd need to work with the existing code or write a new one.

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Registered: Aug 2007
From: Frankfurt, Germany

Hi all,

i have (as usual) a little problem.

Even though all the necessary files are recorded in uninstall.dat they are not removed completely.

I have a folder $InstDir\bin that is only partially emptied even though all files are recorded and should have been removed.

Is there a way to log what gets deleted and what not (and maybe why?).

The $InstDir\bin folder gets filled by different sections in between which other folders get created and filled. All other folders get removed nicely only bin stays (with quite a lot of files). Once i changed the Uninstall.dat to only contain the files that are in \bin and it worked nice, later i tried sorting so all \bin files are together in one section instead of being distributed over the uninstall.dat but that did not work either. I also tried to find out if those files are special in any way like special characters or so, but nope i couldn't find anything.

Right at the beginning when i started implementing it it seemed to work nice, only a couple files were left but now....

Strange but its late and i guess i can't think right either, any help is appreciated.

Thanks for reading

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Registered: Oct 2006
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Are the files in use when you try to delete them? Since you're talking about a bin directory, maybe the program you're trying to delete is still running?

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Registered: Aug 2007
From: Frankfurt, Germany

Well there might be one or two files still in use, but there are well over 100 left that do not get deleted.

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Registered: Apr 2009
From:

Hello,

I have a problem and I hope you can help me.

My Problem is that the uninstall-process is to slow, can
I do something to speed it up.

regards
cool-zer0

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

Most likely it is due to the mentioned disadvantage of the header (especially noticeable when dealing with too many files on old-slower machines) which needs some effort to eliminate it.

http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Advance...er#Disadvantage

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Registered: Mar 2006
From: Ath. GR

Since latest version of Unicode NSIS is able to parse an ansi script as unicode (doesn't need to convert the script prior to compile), I merged the above patch from high1 in one multi-functional header.

This means there's only one header (which itself is ansi), who's able to utilize both NSIS flavors hence produce ansi or unicode uninstall.dat respectively.

Attachment: advuninstlog_multinsis.nsh
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Registered: Jul 2009
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Hi Red Wine,

Thanks for coding up this header. Its definitely a great addition to an already excellent product.

However I am also having issues with the speed of the uninstall. I am uninstalling about 50mbs of an applicaiton which includes up to 2000 files.

Do you think this header is just not suited to the characteristics of my application. Alternatively is there any code that I can change in the header file myself that might speed up the uninstall.

BTW I am using the Unicode NSIS branch and I have used your latest script attached in this thread.

Thanks for your help in advance.

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Registered: Feb 2006
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It IS really an excellent header, and same with jr_spurs, i as well am having problems with the speed of uninstalling...

You're having difficulty with 50 mb? i have a 4gb++ installation to handle xD

The uninstaller has been running for close to 2 hours now, and its still nowhere near done hahaha

It would be nice if something could be done to speed this up...

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Registered: Aug 2009
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From my own experiments it seems only files added inside $INSTDIR get removed. During my install process I install files in many different places, but only the ones in $INSTDIR get removed during uninstall even though all "File ..." calls are wrapped in the required UNINSTALL.LOG... macros. Is this normal/correct?

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Registered: Feb 2006
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i'm not pro at NSIS, but did you check Uninstall.dat in INSTDIR post install to make sure that the directories were logged correctly?

From what i can tell about the script, there shouldn't be limitations in install directories differing from INSTDIR

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Registered: Aug 2009
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I am trying to understand this script as I am relatively new to NSIS. There seems to be some "magic" happening here that I am trying to understand.

Before capturing files, you insert the macro "UNINSTALL.LOG_OPEN_INSTALL". Then call your "File [options] [folder]". The macro contains "${uninstall.log_install} "${EXCLU_LIST}" "${UNINST_DAT}" "$OUTDIR"".

Exactly what I am trying to figure out is how all this work? How does the code in the macro get the information it needs?

Is it that NSIS creates the "exclude.tmp" file in the $PLUGINSDIR, when using the "File" command, and this script then leverages it?

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Registered: Jan 2010
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Hi guys,

I am encountering the following issue. The Uninstaller details list is empty when executing the uninstaller. I have set ShowUninstDetails show but the list only displays the shortcut and installation folder deletion.

Is there any reason for this behavior?
I'm missing something maybe?

Best regards,
Isawen

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Registered: Jan 2010
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Originally posted by isawen
Hi guys,

I am encountering the following issue. The Uninstaller details list is empty when executing the uninstaller. I have set ShowUninstDetails show but the list only displays the shortcut and installation folder deletion.

Is there any reason for this behavior?
I'm missing something maybe?

Best regards,
Isawen

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