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Replace EXE/MSI app with MSIX
Hi, very excited about MSIX, I am doing some initial testing and packaging and I wonder...since MSIX stores user data into it's own private appdata, can I somehow deploy MSIX to machine that has the ...
From what I know you would need to write your own custom code to copy the data from the install location to the user app data folder.
Applications like ours (Advanced Installer) do this automatically, so you don't need to write code. Here is an example were we even migrate data from an app previously installed with an MSI. But it can do the same for apps that you install for the first time, as in your scenario.