gSenter not updating properly

gSender šŸ› Bug
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I donā€™t know if this is tied to any specific version

I have been experiencing this problem for quite a while

However today I tried playing around with it and reproduce the problem I donā€™t have the steps but hereā€™s the synopsis

I have had various versions installed the current version installed is .6.8(I believe I have it set for all users)

I launch gSender,. It advises me that there is a new version to install what I like to install it

I say yes and click okay I think

Install go through I pick all and it goes through the defaults as you would expect

The last question that asks me is do you want to execute g sender and I say yes

Once the program launches the banner for 6.8 is still there and itā€™s prompting me to install .7.0 again

Itā€™s Windows version 10 64-bit pro

Iā€™m 99% sure I actually donā€™t have a virus scanner running

And I have firewalls disabled

ā€¦

Work around that works is uninstalling gSender

Then running the dot 7. 0 g center installer

It advises me that I should not run the install.

I click on the more button and then choose the install

It prompts me then do you want to allow installation into c:\program files

I say yes it installs and everything is fine

I have been experiencing this since the early parts of the beta itā€™s one of those itā€™s sometimes installs the update and sometimes it doesnā€™t

Iā€™ve tried installing into default folder or a custom folder
Iā€™ve even tried it uninstalling installing an old one and allowing it to update and it seems to work fine it just seems to be moody sometimes

Iā€™m sure Iā€™m not the only one whoā€™s running into this but I canā€™t reproduce It on demand

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@Menglor thanks for adding this bug here. Iā€™ve also seen it posted once or twice on the FB group so itā€™s good to have it recorded here as well. Iā€™ll note this down as something to investigate and weā€™ll see if we can implement a fix soon :+1:

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@chrismakesstuff - Chris, Last night after the release announcement I started gSender and of course noticed the download and install option. I started the download and completed the install but it was still showing 0.7.1. I restarted gSender and still had the download and install option. So I ran it a second time. This time it installed the new version and the download and install option disappeared. Hoping this hasnā€™t screwed up the libraries but it seems to run ok on my test arduino. Iā€™ve seen others that seem to have the same problem with having to run it twice. Win 10 Pro/x64.

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So, we think the issue is that we were allowing downloading both globally but also on individual user profiles and that allowed for two different versions of gSender to exist. I believe on the release this Friday thatā€™ll be taken care of.

If you first uninstall all instances of gSender on your computer, and then install the new version - I hope that this issue will be taken care of. Iā€™ll bump this topic for now but I suppose weā€™ll have to just give it a bit more time to see if the issue has - in fact- been fixed.

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@Menglor , @Heyward43 have either of you noticed this continuing to be an issue into the newest updates?

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@chrismakesstuff - I havenā€™t tried it yet Chris. I have been uninstalling and running the .exe file off of GitHub for the last 2 iterations and that works fine. Iā€™ll try updating the old way from gSender next update and let you know then.

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It has worked for me, in the last 3 versions.

that said, someone in the facebook group reported upgrading to 7.5 was an issue.

I will keep my eyes open

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I havenā€™t heard any updating issues recently so Iā€™ll close this thread. If anyone else comes across similar issues feel free to start a new thread and link this old one :slight_smile: