Topic: R6 upgrade and the [memo] bug back to haunt me!
During a protracted and highly problematic server upgrade recently, I had cause to download the latest upgrade for R6 (issued in March 2014 I think) again. I fully expected one or two nasties to re-emerge and so they have.
This thread http://forums.nbn.org.uk/viewtopic.php?id=5227 details a problem with the last upgrade and Mike's fix for it (which worked).
The problem has resurfaced (and subsequently been fixed as before), but it drew my attention to a minor inconsistency on the upgrades page which no-one seems to have noticed. When I checked back through the above thread I saw that the problem was with v 6.22.2.273 and the fix was to replace three files with copies from v6.22.2.274 (as yet unreleased). On the 'Download the latest upgrades' page the accompanying text states: "After the upgrade has run, open Recorder and check the version details in Help-About Recorder 6. This should read '6.22.2.274'." And yet my recently upgraded copy was until this morning reporting 6.22.2.273.
This suggests that anyone who has downloaded the upgrade in the last several months has either not noticed the problem, or they have noticed it and located the fix.
It also clearly shows that no-one bothers to read the accompanying blurb when downloading upgrades, or to test that their completed install is reporting the expected version.
Would it be possible to have the text on the upgrades page corrected and also to indicate somewhere (if it is not already) that there is a known defect in the download which will be corrected when v6.22.2.274 is eventually released?
Thanks
Wildlife Sites Officer
Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre