When you have an online app, and there is a firewall running on the pc, I am asked to allow the app connection to download chrome for example.
Normally this is fine, but when you use the updater within the platform it causes problems.
I am told that there is no connection to download, so I allow the prompt from the firewall and the updater carries on, only it skips chrome.
This means that the install is messed up because it has deleted the old install and now there is nothing for the launcher to do but give a "not found" error.
This then means that I have to download the chrome paf installer and run it again, which completely defeats the whole point of the updater in the first place.
Would it be possible to include a wait function into the installer?
Or Retries?
I know I could just set the connections to allow all temporarily and I would, if I could remember to...problem is, I always forget...
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When finalized, the updater will download both the installer and the chrome installer for you from the same process (and thus the same connection).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
That would be better, thanks
At least then the install wouldn't be messed up when I need to allow it.
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Could online installers (such as Google Chrome Portable) download (or try to download) the needed file before erasing the old app, so that people updating their apps (without the Updater, as you say the new version of the Updater will take care of this) while perhaps on a machine that doesn't have internet access (or in cases where the download gets blocked) won't have the app effectively ruined till they can reinstall either with an internet connection or with the necessary file pre-downloaded?
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