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Squirrel.Windows error #1236

Closed Fox-Islam closed 7 years ago

Fox-Islam commented 7 years ago

Dear itch app team, I'm not sure what this error means but it came up after (while?) downloading an update to the itch.io app (I'm running v23.2.1, Windows 10 64-bit) image

Also is there any way of seeing what the progress is on the update download? I run on a pretty slow connection (600kbps peak) so it would be nice to know how long I can expect the update to take

fasterthanlime commented 7 years ago

Unfortunately, that's a Squirrel.Windows error (the installer/updater system we use), and it looks hairy - were you trying to install another app at the same time? Or did you quit/restart the app at some point?

It should eventually succeed - or, there's always the option of downloading the latest installer from https://itch.io/app and running it - it'll update without any issues.

As for progress report: I wish that was possible, but again, that's a Squirrel.Windows limitation :(

I've been working on another solution: https://github.com/itchio/itchSetup - which can show progress (and is actually quite a bit faster). But it's not ready yet!

Fox-Islam commented 7 years ago

Yeah, I had restarted the app before it started downloading the update (because it said it was searching for an update to the client for about half an hour, which I thought was a little lengthy)

Thankfully the itch app works great regardless of the version, I'll give it another attempt at pulling the update once my internet connection's a little less congested.

fasterthanlime commented 7 years ago

Cool! I'm going to close this since Squirrel.Windows being wonky at times is a known issue but eventually it works.

itchSetup will solve everything (as all yet-unreleased software always does) but in the meantime what I'll do is make the update process more discreet, so that it's not as alarming to users :)