Forum — Upgrade to 6.7.2

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-28T15:04:23Z

I seem to be getting there (and yes the .bat did run a DOS box briefly). Just awaiting the end of the "Adding taxon synonyms to index" then I'll try your fix for the version display panel (or have I done this the wrong way around).
Trying one of the changes implemented in the new build seems the best way to check its run OK, I guess the Report Wizard (11173) is the easiest as it's one I was involved in.
Thanks

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-28T14:38:31Z

Darwyn,

Did it work Ok when you ran the .bat file?

The problem with the version number not changing has been noted elsewhere on this forum - you need to unzip the content of the UpgradeFiles.zip file onto your Recorder 6 installation folder. In fact, now that I think of it, this is probably the cause of the reg file failure. This problem is fixed in later builds of Recorder but unfortunately they have not been released yet.

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-28T13:51:13Z

My detailed response disappeared into the aether so apologies for briefness of this.
Files are only in my CD version "Upgrade Kit for any Recorder 6".
Mission achieved according to your instructions.
What next (I guess try upgrade again)
Ran the upgrade again, long wait for the first blocks of the progress bar to start but I did receive the message "Recorder upgraded"
Still reads version 6.6.8.59 though

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-28T09:31:17Z

In the Upgrade Kit, open the UpgradeFiles.zip file and then the Addins folder within it. Copy the UpdateRec6Addins.bat file and reg file from the zip file to your server's addins folder (presumably F:/LRC/R6Server/Addins/). Now, first try running the batch file and see what happens. If that works, try running the reg file and merging the content. Let me know what happens.

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-28T09:02:02Z

It doesn't exist, John. Is it something I can find elsewhere?

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-28T08:41:53Z

Darwyn

When you run the upgrade, does the file F:/LRC/R6Server/Addins/Updaterec6addins.reg exist? If so, what happens if you run it (and accept the merge into your registry)?

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-27T08:31:36Z

I've so much of a backlog of work for export/import that I felt I had to try the upgrade on work's version of Recorder 6. Essentially I get the same message as Graham:

Graham Hawker wrote:

We have two standalone versions and I thought I'd give the upgrade a go. All I get is a message that the Registry Editor cannot import C:/Program Files/Recorder 6/Addins/Updaterec6addins.reg Error opening file. And now Recorder doesn't start (unhandled error at login). Edit: Same thing after a restart - Recorder 6 no longer working. These are definately the sort of upgrades I could do without.
Graham Hawker
Thames Valley Environmental Records Centre

Mine is Registry Editor cannot import F:/LRC/R6Server/Addins/Updaterec6addins.reg Error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error. The upgrade then hangs.
Fortunately my Recorder 6 still works after this.
This is not the situation outlined by John in his 4th July posting (i.e. the network upgrade did not appear to go successfully) so I must assume that his solution is not the one I need.

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-04T07:49:30Z

Darwyn (and others)
If you run a network upgrade which appears to go successfully, and then Recorder 6 still reports the old version in the about box, then to fix this unzip the UpgradeFiles.zip directly ontop of the Recorder 6 server installation folder, replacing any existing files. This should be all you need to do to fix it.

The problem was reported by Mike Weideli (thanks!), whereby an incorrect registry setting left behind by the install kit causes the upgrade kit to fail to find the Recorder server folder. Version 6.8's install kit is fixed, plus the upgrade is fixed so that it tolerates this problem even if it is still there.

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-03T15:35:59Z

Perhaps you could offer to join in with the 6.8 testing effort? I'd be willing to help test 6.8 too, as we're desperate for it as well.

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-07-03T14:44:10Z

I talked to Charles Roper recently about this 6.7.2 upgrade and the story he gave me was that the network version for him required the efforts of 2 genii whereas the upgrading of stand-alones (satellites) were a breeze.
I'm stuck. I've got contracts requiring me to provide data before a certain date, undertakings to update datasets on the NBN Gateway, an RSPB enquiry that I could fulfil easily if I could bung my birds on the NBN Gateway and, to almost come full circle, pressure being applied from one member of the Hoverfly Recording Scheme duo to cough up records for the Dipterists Forum field weeks at the same time that the other one is testing upgrade 6.8.
I could try to buy in a day from Mike Weideli but I'd rather have a working 6.8 that I can install myself.
Can anyone assist with my dilemmae.

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-06-27T10:36:06Z

Hi,

The original upgrade ran fine for me. I'm now upgrading a different network copy and the upgrade is not working.
Can someone tell me where on the server I copy these files to, and in what order to run them?
Thanks,
Catherine

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-06-05T11:21:17Z

I reinstalled Recorder 6. This is the latest version but there is an upgarde directory on the disc so I ran it and the missing file(s) have appeared. I just don't remember any instructions concerning running this upgrade. So now it's back to the new upgrade..........

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-06-01T10:36:34Z

Rob

I didn't clean out the registry but phyically deleting folders seems to have worked.

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-06-01T10:30:37Z

Hi Graham,

Did you already do a fresh reinstall?

THer reason I ask is that we also had problems uninstalling a workstation- ending up phyisically deleting folders, & most importantly the registry entries.

I still have one workstation with a totally unusable part-upgraded Recorder standalone in it. However have got a network of around a dozen volunteers using others so will clean that one up when I get round to it!

Re: Upgrade to 6.7.2

2006-06-01T09:46:34Z

We're using Windows 2000.

That file is not present.

I'm reinstalling the program so it at least works. It was interesting to note that the uninstall function didn't uninstall any of the Recorder 6 files including the program file. First time I assumed it had uninstalled and the reinstall didn't work. Second time I deleted the Recorder 6 directory and it seems to be working.