App updater with user data migration

creewick / uWidgets

Standalone .NET application with a variety of customizable widgets

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App updater with user data migration #34

Open Runixe786 opened 3 months ago

Runixe786 commented 3 months ago

Can you provide an option in app to backup current layout and widget settings so that when we upgrade the app to newer version, its easy to restore our previous layout we had setup in older versions? It will be quite useful thing in my opinion.

creewick commented 3 months ago

For now, it can be done only manually — you just need to keep appSettings.json and layout.json from the previous version. That's because the app is portable and doesn't have an installer / deinstaller.

I will consider adding an installer for updates. It will do the following:

Download the new version to a separate directory
Close the application
Copy all files, but keep user data from the previous version
Delete temporary files
Start the application again