{"id":4548,"date":"2016-10-25T10:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2019-07-07T17:53:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T17:53:33","slug":"the-inst-column-in-the-file-list-tab-in-visual-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-inst-column-in-the-file-list-tab-in-visual-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Inst&#8217; column in the &#8216;File list&#8217; tab in Visual Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/pad\/icons\/visual_installer.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\">The <strong>File list<\/strong> tab in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/visual-installer\/visual-installer.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visual Installer<\/a> is used to store a list of files to install. The file table contains different columns, and one of them &#8211; the <strong>Inst<\/strong> column &#8211; is used to show current file copy settings for each file in the file list. A letter or a special character shows which copy setting that are set for every file. Below is a list with available copy settings:<\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong> : Check file date before copying the file.<br \/>\n<strong>V<\/strong> : Check version number before copying the file.<br \/>\n<strong>N<\/strong> : Never replace an existing file.<br \/>\n<strong>W<\/strong> : Replace also a write-protected file.<br \/>\n<strong>X<\/strong> : Warn if the file already exists on the hard disk.<br \/>\n<strong>A<\/strong> : If the file is in use (active) and locked, replace it when the computer is restarted.<br \/>\n<strong>B<\/strong> : Create a backup of the file before it is replaced.<br \/>\n<strong>R<\/strong> : Register the file in the system.<br \/>\n<strong>P<\/strong> : Write-protect the file after installation.<br \/>\n<strong>E<\/strong> : If the version number of the source and destination file is equal, do not copy.<br \/>\n<strong>*<\/strong> : Never uninstall this file.<\/p>\n<p>How to change copy settings for the files in file list is explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/how-to-set-file-copy-options-in-visual-installer\/\">this blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The File list tab in Visual Installer is used to store a list of files to install. The file table contains different columns, and one of them &#8211; the Inst column &#8211; is used to show current file copy settings for each file in the file list. A letter or a special character shows which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/the-inst-column-in-the-file-list-tab-in-visual-installer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8216;Inst&#8217; column in the &#8216;File list&#8217; tab in Visual Installer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samlogic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}