Fork launches lots of Update.exe

[miffe]

Version: 1.93.3.0

Once every hour fork starts four Update.exe console windows that disappears very quickly. Had to record a video to even se what was happening.

Can this be fixed please, it's very annoying.

[DanPristupov]

It's weird because Fork shouldn't check for updates every hour. Please check if the log file has any errors. The log is located at %localappdata%\fork\logs\fork.log

[miffe]

🔷 2024-01-30 17:38:54.373 Automatically fetching 'XXX'
🔷 2024-01-30 17:38:58.863 RefreshRepositoryData
◽️ 2024-01-30 17:38:58.863 YYY RefreshRepositoryDataGitCommand Revisions, References
◽️ 2024-01-30 17:38:59.555 YYY Repository data are equal. No Changes
🔷 2024-01-30 17:48:51.893 Automatically fetching 'ZZZ'

Nothing in the logs about it. It happend at 17:41

[DanPristupov]

Nothing in the logs about it.

I just checked, here's what I see:

1. Run File -> Check for updates. Will it add entries to the log? Does it show the Update.exe window?
2. Close Fork and wait. Will the dialog appear again?
3. If you have a Process Explorer, check the parent process of Update.exe.
4. Did you try to reboot?

[miffe]

1. It adds entries to the log and doesn't show the Update.exe window. 2/3. Will have to wait until tomorrow, I'm not at work anymore.
2. Yes, doesn't help.

[miffe]

This is probably a bug in WingetUI when it checks for updates. See marticliment/WingetUI#1762

[marticliment]

The issue is caused by update.exe being added to path, and then WingetUI mistakenly calling it when checking for updates