AutoPatcher Forum

Hi, this is my very first post on this forum. I am very well pleased with the autopatcher program and its time-saving benefits. I had the updater installed in my laptop and built up an autopatcher CD which is a great tool for my 4 computers running WinXP Pro or Home SP3. Now last week my laptop where I used the original updater with has crashed (not related to the autopatcher software) and now I found that every time I get this updater started in any of my 4 computers updated with the autopatcher CD last month the download starts from ground zero again. Also I should mention it is 585 MB of updates and I have a slooooooooow dial up speed in an isolated country setting, this will take many days of downloading if not a week or two.

I am trying to find a way to use this autopatcher CD to continue on and add newer updates and build up a newer autopatcher CD, but don't know how to go about this. Does anyone know how I can do this, and please be gentle since I am a tech newbie and I am slowly learning more about computers. Thanks for the time, greatly appreciated!

Tim

If your CD has everything on it, including the apup stuff thats used to download you should be able to just copy the entire contents of the cd and then use that as your base to addon.

Thanks for the speedy reply. How do I go about adding on? Please give all the details since I'm new with this software. Thanks.

Tim

Once you have everything copied, just run apup and tell it what to download (just like you would if you were starting fresh, it should only download whats new and not the whole thing again)..i think.

My apologies, I should have mentioned I tried that yesterday but it failed. I started the updater with the autopatcher downloaded but somehow the updater wanted to start from ground zero again. Could it be my 2010 KIS interfering with this or could I be doing something else wrong? Thanks again.

Tim

Have you copied ALL the contents from your autopatcher CD? When you run APUP it automatically looks in the modules folder and determines what has already been downloaded and then what needs to be downloaded (i dont know the exact detection process). i dont know if there are any other required files. When you built your CD, did you copy the entire contents of your autopatcher directory to it, including apup and all the files that come with a fresh download?

I copied all the necessary files that the PDF document told me to copy. I see there are 9 files made up of modules, bins, autopatcher, etc... When I open the "hit this to generate a log file" I see a quick flash of a black screen and then it is gone, so maybe my KIS 2010 is blocking this from working?

That may be because you didnt copy apup.exe from the cd..

You should copy EVERYTIHNG from your cd that is related to autopatcher...evveeerrrryything.

So if your CD contains ONLY autopatcher stuff...copy it ALL.

Another alternative would be to grab the latest apup download and extract it overtop the stuff you have copied (it shouldnt overwrite what you have already downloaded).

*ITs probably NOt your antivirus blocking it. All that cmd log thing does is run apup.exe /log which is a switch to make apup produce a log file

Well now, I was following Phariset's ideas and I thought about dragging the downloaded apup.exe program and dropping it into the autopatcher folder that came from the CD, and guess what? It worked! Now I have only 33 MB of updates to work with instead of the huge 585 MB, so now my problem is solved. Thanks for your advice Phariset.

And compliments to the geniuses who invented this software, and keep up the good work!

Tim