DirectoryRef Id attribute is not a legal identifier about wax HOT 5 CLOSED

This can happen if Wax can't deduce the parent folder from the project. In this case it's up to you to specify the correct parent, that's what the TODO: means - replace the whole name with the name of the valid parent directory node.

How does your project structure look like? Can you provide a sample?

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I'm sorry for the paranoid mockup but my client is ... special :-)

It's a relatively complex structure and I'm not the one who created it. I just didn't touch it after the original installer is made of pure pain and a plain text configuration file. Could it be the complexity of the project?

Thank you for your quick reply!

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I found the problem, it's the deep nesting of folders, where only the last folder contains files.

So your directory tree should look something like this:

    <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
      <Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="WPF_Project">
        <Directory Id="assets" Name="assets">
          <Directory Id="assets_bootstrap" Name="bootstrap">
            <Directory Id="assets_bootstrap_3.3.5" Name="3.3.5">
              <Directory Id="assets_bootstrap_3.3.5_css" Name="css"/>
...

I will fix this in Wax and make a new release ASAP.

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Thank you very much!

I think I'll use this opportunity to ditch the deep nesting. It only occured because the last dev downloaded some pages from a web site and hosted it in an self hosted server without changing anything.

Thank you again! You did a great job!

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Fixing my directories solved the issue. Thank you for your help!

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