[wpkg-users] Batch file not working

[chiddie]

chiddie wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Falko Trojahn-2 wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> The .bat contains the following lines:
>>>
>>> cd /D %userprofile%\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\Profiles
>>> for /D %%f in (*.default) do cd
>>> "%userprofile%\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\Profiles\%%f\"
>>> rd extensions /s /q
>>>
>>> I then added the corrispondent line to the package
>>>
>>> <install cmd='"\\servername\wpkg\software\Mozilla
>>> Thunderbird\deletelightning.bat"' />
>>>
>>> If i run the .bat file from the target PC, the folder is correctly
>>> deleted.
>>> If the .bat is run via wpkg package, it returns an error
>>>
>>> "Could not process (install) package 'Mozilla Thunderbird' (Mozilla
>>> Thunderbird):|Exit code returned non-successful value (2) on command
>>> '"\\servername\wpkg\software\Mozilla Thunderbird\deletelightning.bat"'
>>> and
>>> the folder is not deleted.
>>>
>>> Where am i wrong?
>> 
>> Wpkg runs as system user (usually), so you cannot use %userprofile% of a 
>> logged in computer user. Perhaps you could make something like a 
>> "foreach" loop to go thru all user's profiles and delete the 
>> corresponding path. Or better use a domain logon script or something 
>> like that.
>> 
>> But for sure, you should be careful, to not delete wrong data ...
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Falko
>> 
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> 
> Yeah, the problem in using a logon script is that it should be timed to
> run exactely after Thunderbird upgrade and before the new Lightning
> install.
> 
> I don't think it's possible.
> 
> Btw, i am forced to use the %userprofile% variable since ufortunately the
> default location of that DAMNED calendar (i have yeto to understand why it
> cannot be integrated directly in Thunderbird from the start) is
> %userprofile%\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\Profiles\random.profilefolder\extensions.
> And i cannot simply delete the thunderbird folder because the users would
> lose all the old calendar entries, mail settings and message filters.
> 
> I'll give it a few more tries and then i'll simply wrote a global e-mail
> saying that the day TB will be upgraded users will have to manually
> uninstall the old version od Lightning and manual install the new version
> from a network repository.
> 
> I wish we had Microsoft Outlook -.-
> 
I am quite slow to understand things but maybe i finally got why WPKG cannot
use the %userprofile% variable: that's because the WPKG scripts run
pre-logon and of course WPKG cannot know which user i will use to logon to
the target machine, thus making WPKG run a script that deletes a specific
user's folder before that user logon cannot of course succeed.

But given this, the issue remains. I'm at a point now in which i will
probably simply deploy the main program update and then ask the users that
needs that extensions to go manually uninstall old extensions and install
new ones. If i will have time to waste in the future i'll give it another
try.
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