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how do you use APUP with
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Download apup.exe from the Announcement forum, pick which set of update(s) you need (note: there are bugs with the office 2003 and 2007 sets right now) then click next and with for them to download. When finished, run autopatcher.exe to find updates that you don't have installed and pick which ones to install.

Cyrus, on Nov 19 2007, 06:18 AM, said:

I downloaded all of the relevant updates using apup, but how do I use autopatcher to choose which ones to install? When I run autopatcher all it does is give me 2 updates that I elected not to install in August.

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Did you download the "AutoPatcher Engine 5.6.81" list or are you using your old version of autopatcher? Also, there is an updated Windows XP English list today so you may see if that contains the updates which you are looking for.

I'd like to add my own curiousness to this question. It seems when people answer it's only a partial answer or of very little use. Telling someone to extract it and run it then run AP is simply not an answer that is very useful. Personally I'd like to see an APUP usage guide posted and pinned. I realize it's still in Beta and issues are still cropping up. I finally, after over a month of trying, got it to finish downloading all the updates after having it stall over and over, quitting and then restarting over and over.

1. Is APUP normally run from the Autopatcher installed folder? In other words extract the apup.zip archive into the AP folder?

2. What is the procedure if creating a separate folder for APUP to run? Copy that folders contents back to the Autopatcher folders once download of all patches is completed? If so do the APUP root folder contents go into the Autopatcher root folder?

Right now, we only release the files to public so that they can help us with some bugs, giving us feedback. It's not intended to regular use, as it has some bugs, and the result is a Unofficial release (that will be Official when we release the final version).

1. We still have 2 options: APUP will download automatically all the files to "C:\Program Files\AutoPatcher" or to the folder where APUP is being executed;

2. Just decompress APUP.zip to a folder and execute it. After, you'll have a new "module" folder. Right now, it's up to you. I recommend people to test it "as it is", that means, download "AutoPatcher Engine 5.6.81" (and decompress the zip files - right now there is a bug that doesn't allow APUP to decompress the files), and download the release you want to test.

Renato, on Nov 19 2007, 04:52 PM, said:

Thanks Renato

Ok I understand some of that. ;-) I guess more to the point. I have the previous AP releases up to the last. I ended up downloading it all in a new APUP folder. I see the new "Modules" folder. My current AP folder already has the most current AP updates as of August. So what do I need to do with the new "Modules" folder in the APUP folder if I want to add that to the current AP installtion? Simply copy newer files only? Do I just need to ignore the old AP installation and try the APUP files folder? I'm all for testing to help you guys out but give me a bone. The new system is supposed to simply add to the old AP installation correct? Or as you suggested you'd rather us only test the basic APUP function?

I do see the new AP engine. The downloaded zip file is named apengine_exe.zip. I wondered what that was until you explained it. However I see it in two folders, the Bin folder and the root APUP folder. I assume when you say it has a bug and doesn't decompress the zip files you mean the new engine only?

Yes, the new engine does not get extracted for some people (personally I didn't have a problem). If you have WinRAR or some other compression tool installed just right click the cab files and select "Extract to here" or whatever similar option you are given. (If you don't see something like that, open it and extract it manually.) In theory the new files downloaded with apup.exe can go into your old AP folder, but to be on the safe side I just deleted the old ones (I didn't realize that the new list didn't have the tools folder) and started from scratch. It includes all of the old updates plus some new ones.

I could never have the .cab files extracted. Now the engine files are downloaded as zip files, not as .cab. You'll have to extract apengine_exe.zip to APUP root, apengine_bin.zip to \bin folder, and apengine_lng.zip to \translations folder. then you may delete those .zip files.

I suggest, right now, to use just the download file, not to mix the old August release with this one. In the future they will be compatible, that means that you will be able to update August's release with the new one available in APUP.

thanks renato
I get most of that
After running the download and extracting the files required
I ran autopatcher, which reported files missing
I think these are the files that are missing from the download
apengine_bin.zip, apengine_lng.zip
this information was taken from your post

those files are automatically deleted after they are extracted. Also, make sure you have the latest version of apup (released 27 Nov). What files did autopatcher report as missing?