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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

Rob Large
Wildlife Sites Officer
Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre

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Re: R6 upgrade and the [memo] bug back to haunt me!

I have just downloaded the version on the R6 website and it looks like version 274 to me.

Mike Weideli

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Re: R6 upgrade and the [memo] bug back to haunt me!

Well that's really odd.

I downloaded from there and upgraded our new installation and then copied the contents of almost all the subfolders of R6 from the old installation to the new one, to ensure we had the newest versions of reports etc. However I did not copy anything from the root folder itself, such as RecorderApp.exe, because I wanted to be sure we had the most recent version of the program and all the right .ini files etc. (even though the old installation had been upgraded to the latest version anyway. Did all that before copying the database across.

Nevertheless, yesterday morning R6 was reporting version 273 and had the [memo] bug back.

Can you think of anything else (outside of RecorderApp.exe & its associated files) that changed between 273 & 274. I want to be sure we have a fully upgraded version and there are no surprises waiting to be discovered.

Is there any point in me putting things back to the way they were yesterday and re-running the upgrade from a fresh download?.

Rob Large
Wildlife Sites Officer
Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre

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Re: R6 upgrade and the [memo] bug back to haunt me!

OK Mike, I think I have got to the bottom of that, it was my mistake, but you could help stop it happening again.

I just did a fresh download of the upgrade and received the file Rec6_Upgrade_V6.22.2.274.zip, however when I unzipped it, the top level folder is called Rec6_Upgrade_V6.22.2

Now I have checked back and we have retained a copy of Rec6_Upgrade_V6.22.2.273.zip, however when I unzipped it, the top level folder is also called Rec6_Upgrade_V6.22.2 We also had an unzipped copy of this lurking in our updates folder.

Somehow I must have got confused and upgraded from the wrong folder. I guess there's a lesson in there about not retaining local copies of the install files in unzipped form, but having folders which do not name the upgrade version explicitly doesn't help.

I have now restored and re-run the latest upgrade just to be on the safe side and everything seems to be working & reporting the right version.

Rob Large
Wildlife Sites Officer
Wiltshire & Swindon Biological Records Centre