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Author Topic: DCUpdater redundancy  (Read 16782 times)

jdmarch

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DCUpdater redundancy
« on: July 24, 2010, 03:52 PM »
This scenario has occurred many times and is quite frustrating:

1. DCUpdater runs and suggests updates. Other stuff going on, no time to respond.

2. A few days later, DCUpdater runs again. All the same updates are suggested, added to the end of the list. Maybe I'm away from home for a few weeks with my computer on remote access. By the time I get home, the list of 10-ish suggested updates has grown to a list of 100 suggested updates, with the same ones being listed again and again and again. Yech.

Thanks.



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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2010, 04:00 PM »
yes i have been meaning to post that i found this to be the case too, and its a good clue i will try to release a new dcupdater release in the next few days that fixes this; i think it explains the mystery of multiple entries that people posted before that i wasnt able to reproduce before.

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2010, 04:10 PM »
Thanks, mouser!

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2010, 11:51 PM »
new version should now fix this; not uploaded yet. jd if you can reproduce this bug i'd love to send you a beta to test.

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2010, 06:17 AM »
Sorry, mouser I've been unavailable for almost 2 months, but I've now updated and will let you know if the problem recurs. FWIW, after updating FARR to 2.90.02, it now shows "version on web" as 2.90.01. No harm, but seems unnecessarily confusing. Also, for both FARR and (especially) DCU, the online version history (and I presume the help generally) are out of date:
https://www.donation...drun/help/index.html
https://www.donation...ater/help/index.html

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2010, 05:41 PM »
I experience a similar problem, except it doesn't make the items in the list show up more than twice.

What I do is install all DC programs into Program Files\DonationCoder\[ProgramName] and then I've added "Program Files\DonationCoder\" to the list of where to check for updates.

As you can see, I have redundant entries.

Screenshot - 9_12_2010 , 4_40_06 PM.pngDCUpdater redundancy

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2010, 05:44 PM »
ok this is important for me to solve this (since i thought i already did!)
can you show me pictures of the bottom panel when you click on the 2 duplicate entries for an item? (ie show me the bottom panel when you click on the first two entries in your list) -- i'm trying to see where it shows the update file located.

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #7 on: September 12, 2010, 09:02 PM »
They're the same.


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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #8 on: September 12, 2010, 09:05 PM »
and now the file question, if you do Help -> About from DcUpdater, what version does it report?

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #9 on: September 12, 2010, 09:06 PM »
DcUpdater
v1.27.02 by DonationCoder

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #10 on: September 12, 2010, 09:09 PM »
how on earth is this happening  :tellme:'
i swear sometimes i think you guys that find these bugs have magical powers.  i would have laid money that this was not possible in the latest version.

can you show me your "Extra Update Files and Exclusions" tab in the options?

and to confirm, you are getting these duplicates right after you launch the updater manually right?

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #11 on: September 12, 2010, 09:10 PM »
Hmm.. Looks like Screenshot Captor didn't capture that very well...

and to confirm, you are getting these duplicates right after you launch the updater manually right?

Yes. Every time I launch it, that's the list it shows.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2010, 09:13 PM by Deozaan »

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2010, 09:48 PM »
ok i think i see the problem.

deo, can you try replacing your existing dcuppdater.exe with this beta:
https://www.donation.../beta/DcUppdater.zip

and see if that fixes it.

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #13 on: September 13, 2010, 12:32 AM »
That appears to have fixed it. :Thmbsup:

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #14 on: September 13, 2010, 12:37 AM »
thanks for finding the bug.. new official version will be posted soon.

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Re: DCUpdater redundancy
« Reply #15 on: September 13, 2010, 12:40 AM »
Thanks for fixing it! :D