PortableApps.com Updater 1.0 ALPHA 6

Is there any chance that you could make it so that it tells you what the installed version is?

I tried to update itself from the alpha, then from the beta, and got an md5 error both times. New version seems to be working fine though.

I'm already improving the icon for the next version (no preview, wait to the next version). It seems to work great.

Strange thing:

On the launch of the app it gives the following warning for awhile:

Database Downloading
Bitte warten...
Please wait...

Anyway, this is on a borderless windows with a XP style. It seems a little "rushed" in the app, could it be improved?

I'm having the following issue.

After executing the .exe I get a cute error message.

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PortableApps Setup
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Database Error
E:\PortableApps\PortableAppsUpdater\Data\updater.ini not found! 1033
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OK
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What instantly comes to my mind is that it would be useful to have a "dry-run" feature that just reports the state of the currently installed portable apps, i.e. what version is installed and which version is currently the latest.

It might be that this feature is already implemented. I don't have the time to play with this app right now, but really like the idea of it, and didn't wan't this idea get lost.

autoupdate to Beta 2 was ok, download of some apps as well. Perhaps the last GUI saying " You have installed PortableApps 0.90..." should be changed, but that´s only a minor bug
one more request. the default autoupdate of the updater comes up every time, perhaps it could be selected/unselected by a checkbox at start?

did you get that AWESOME horizontal rule?!

When updating any app, the updater downloads itself and starts installation of itself, forcing the previous version to close if a careless user continues install.

Marko, please keep this labeled as an alpha as it has a ways to go to make it to official release stage. The inability to calculate space and other bugs mean we still have a ways to go. Also, the license page should not show. And there should be no option to run at the end of install for this or any other portable app (it should be using an unmodified installer (except for language selection)).

It causes a large download if a person doesn't wanted to install it and forgets to uncheck the box. I could not abort out of the download.

once I got the proxy info set right into the .ini, I now get an error that says "No actualization needed"

Any idea what causes this?

I have a slow dial-up connection. If my download connection gets reset (and this happens a lot), the process appears to recover but it creates split files in the temp dir. i.e. ClamWin_Portable_0.92.paf.exe and ClamWin_Portable_0.92.paf.exe.1.

These files when combined by hand do represent the entire full download. But the app gives an MD5 error because I suspect it's checking the 1st file and not the concatenation of them all.

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It appears as if recovery doesn't append to the existing file but rather continues the download with an incremental name. That'd be fine if the files are finally concatenated together before use, but that doesn't seem to be happening, especially before the MD5 sum check.

For future reference, when you update the app, add a comment to this thread to announce it

It is great. The bug with the lock-in of the folder is gone. It looks great.
Uh... Tried installing 7-Zip. It worked fine, great actually. I just must (re-?)request you just to put the apps installation silent by default, so it can go on automatically without the user interviewing after pressing the install button.

EDIT: I know the Updater removes from the list the apps that are up to date, but could you make the apps with updates highlighted in some sort, for being able to know which apps need update from the ones that I don't have installed?

I see no point in skipping alpha five if there are no differences between the app itself.

The Required Space needs to work. It would be very helpful.

Ran Updater for the first time, here are my suggestions for improving the user friendliness of the front end:

1. The Back button on the first window should be disabled as it exits the updater (or it should re-run the Database download).

2. Display the current and new version numbers next to each other. At the moment one has to scroll to see if an app needs updating.

3. I would prefer the list in two parts, the installed ones first, followed by the ones available that I haven't installed.

4. If no checkboxes are checked the Next button should be disabled?

5. I hate having to scroll. Stating the obvious next to the list, ie. "Select the components to install/uninstall...", wastes screen space - the list could be 50% wider. (If you really want to tell newbies this it could go in the description field when the mouse passes over the checkboxes).

6. Making the window sizeable would allow users to see all the information for all the apps without having to do any scrolling.

7. I would much prefer a listView rather than a list. It is so much easier on the eye to have the details in columns. It also avoids having to clutter the list up with the strings: -->, (download), (Inst.) and (local.) as these would be headings.

Can't run, I always get the error message that says updater.ini is missing. Running from X:\PortableApps\PortableAppsUpdater, with several other apps under X:\PortableApps\ (none of the other apps are currently running, and a few are outdated)

Edit: Nevermind, I got it working, I forgot to setup the proxy.

One suggestion to improve the app, if the user doesn't select any items to update/install, don't let them go to the Install pages.

I have "Proxy_Adr=auto" in the settings.ini, and I've got an IE window able to talk to the outside world (including ftp). I'm still getting the "updater.ini not found! 1033" error. I've tried in 1.06 Alpha and 1.07 Alpha. My proxy requires authentication - is this the reason?

I tried adding the proper settings to the .wgetrc. The error goes away, but I now get the "no actualization needed" message.

Is there a log file or file timesatamp I can check to ensure that the ftp actually succeeded?

PS - Download page for 1.06 Alpha does not indicated 1.07 is out. I only found 1.07 when searching the forums for the error message.