Writing to a SUBSTed drive from NSIS installer

Question

I'm having problems writing to a SUBSTed drive from my NSIS installer.

IfFileExists  "K:\PROJECT\CFG\*.*" 0 DoesNotExist  
SetOutPath "K:\PROJECT\CFG"  
File ..\CFG\\*.*

DoesNotExist:

Moreover - it doesn't even find the path so I ended up commenting the IfFileExists command which then leads to the following error being generated. I tried running the installer as admin but still I get the following message:

Error opening file for writing:

K:\\PROJECT\\CFG\\CFG.x

Click Abort to stop the installation, Retry to try again, or Ignore to skip this file.

where K: is the SUBSTed drive.

If using the actual path it works fine. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Answer 1

OK, I found the problem. It's the UAC elevation. The SUBSTed drive doesn't exist for the admin account and therefore won't be visible/accessible to the installer.