[Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

[Bruce Mutton]

Thanks Vladimir

I seem to have got through all that successfully.

I will stick to “all users” Therion installs from now on, as that puts the files in a location where I am used to looking for them.

If the installer ever handles uninstalls, then the .ini files should be preserved.

 

Bruce

 

From: Therion [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf Of ???????? ???????? via Therion
Sent: Tuesday, 30 May 2017 6:59 AM
To: List for Therion users <therion at speleo.sk>
Cc: Владимир Георгиев <vld.georgiev at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows Installer incomplete installs

 

Bruce

This is likely because the "Install for all users" uses a location in Program Files, while "Current user" uses a location in the users AppData folder. The former requires admin privileges, and the later can be used by a limited user.

Older installer versions used Program files by default, and the new files would always overwrite the older ones. But if you had an older version in Program Files, and installed the new one for the current user in his AppData folder, you would end up with two sets of files. And with conflicting file type associations.

You could try uninstalling and manually deleting the Therion install folder. Cleaning the registry entries requires using Registry Editor and deleting a set of keys, if you are comfortable doing that.
The keys are these (after the text "Subkey". HKLM is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKCU is HKEY_CURRENT_USER)
https://github.com/therion/therion-batteries/blob/master/therion.iss#L60-L104

I suppose a better solution would be if I can make the installer uninstall any previous version before installing. This should prevent such an issue.

Vladimir

 

On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Bruce Mutton via Therion <therion at speleo.sk <mailto:therion at speleo.sk> > wrote:

Things are getting weirder.

Usually I have just installed one version of Therion over top of whatever version I have installed, but wonder if this might be contributing to issues I have here.

After I have installed 5.4.1 over top of 5.4.0…

If I open a thconfig file, with Help About I get 5.4.1 reported, as below



 

If I then open a .th2 drawing file, I get 5.4.0 reported, as below



 

So with two instances of XTherion open at the same time, each is reporting a different version.

 

Same thing happens installing 5.4.1  88c8a06 over top of 5.4.1.  The drawing editor still reports 5.4.0

 

Perhaps a harmless bug/omission or something odd with the installer?

Initial drawing suggests the drawing editor is behaving like 5.4.1 (triangular survey stations).

 

Bruce

 

From: Therion [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk <mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk> ] On Behalf Of Bruce Mutton via Therion
Sent: Monday, 29 May 2017 9:44 AM
To: 'List for Therion users' <therion at speleo.sk <mailto:therion at speleo.sk> >
Cc: Bruce Mutton <bruce at tomo.co.nz <mailto:bruce at tomo.co.nz> >
Subject: [Therion] Therion 5.4.1 Windows crash if survex loop-closure

 

I’ve just started catching up on a drawing project since 5.4.1 has been released.

A while back I reported problems with beta versions of Therion related to ‘loop-closure survex’.

 

They were fixed in 5.4.0

 

Now using 5.4.1 those projects/thconfigs that crashed before now seem to be OK, but I have now found another project/thconfig that crashes with 5.4.1 but not with 5.4.0



 

5.4.1 runs OK with ‘loop-closure therion’ but gets killed by Windows 10 when I use ‘loop-closure survex’.

Am still using survex 1.2.27.  I have attached the log file with ‘loop-closure survex’.

 

Not sure if it is related, but I notice that if I install 5.4.1 ‘Install Only for Me’ it will not overwrite a previously installed 5.4.0, even though the installer does not report any errors or problems to the user.  Ie it fails even though it looks like it has worked just fine.

To get 5.4.1 to overwrite 5.4.0 I need to “Install for all users”.

 

Bruce

 

 


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