Testers Needed for New Auto-Updater
Update: Test #2 now taking place with a few changes – see the blog post with instructions here.
It’s a little past 3:30am and we just finished the new auto-updater! It seems that every time we push an update we get a few emails about Digsby completely not working afterwards and a few diagnostic logs with errors that we know don’t really exist. The reason for this is that a small portion of users get a partial update each time we push a new build. Additionally, if you are a non-admin user on Windows XP or Windows Vista the update would go into an endless loop because we had no way of knowing that the user doesn’t have write permission to the Digsby folder.
The new auto-update system is better in a few ways. First, it makes backups of all the old files and reverts to them all if the update fails at some point. It will just try again next time you restart Digsby. Second, for non-admin users it asks for elevated privileges, allowing an admin to put in their password so the update can take place. Third, while it is copying the new files from a temporary folder and restarting Digsby you now see a small splash screen so you know it is still busy.
Since the auto-updater is the most critical component (if we break it, then everyone would need to reinstall) we would like to have some of you test it before we push it to everyone. The worst thing that can happen is it doesn’t work and you will need to download and run the installer from our website. No matter what happens, none of your preferences or account information will be lost. There are instructions on our forum, which is also where we would like you to post your results:
