Cannot run because of upgrading failing!

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  high6 wrote:

  Whenever I try to run it asks if I would like to upgrade, even if I click no it still tries to. It says it is up to date and then closes after deleting reflector.exe.

  
  I'm getting a similar issue, since Monday 31st Mar every time I start reflector I get a message saying Reflector is out of date, but when it checks it reports up to date and continues.
  
  I've check this on 3 machines here, same. There must a time bomb in the application.
  
  Annoying....

  slaneyrw March 29, 2009 22:49

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  Also experiencing problems with this. Although I haven't noticed any corruption of the installation. The problem for me is that the executable is opening a message box to ask the user about an update and then says that the application is up to date. This is a minor irritation if you are running the application interactively but a big deal when it is being run from the command line.
  Attempts to run reflector add-ins from the command line as part of automated build are failing because of the message boxes popping up.
  
  Is an update for reflector coming? Is there a way to disable this check from the command line or config file?

  hamish March 29, 2009 23:14

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  It's pretty clear from what's happening, that Redgate had Reflector set to 'expire' at the end of the month, update or not.
  
  I'm truly annoyed that I have to be subjected to this.

  caddzooks March 30, 2009 00:31

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  Hi folks,
  
  the Update should now be working.
  
  This update behaviour has been present for years and is certainly a place where we can make a better user experience for you when we start the main work on Reflector.
  
  Regards,
  
  Stephen

  StephenC March 30, 2009 11:06

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  Hello everyone,
  
  
  Yes, we absolutely screwed up here: my apologies for this. You should find that the new update (5.1.5.0) is now available. Again, apologies for the hassle caused. On the positive side, as far as I can tell now, there's no reason this should happen again.
  
  
  Thanks,
  
  
  Bart

  Bart Read March 30, 2009 11:49

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  Still does not work for me. It says it is up to date and just closes.
  
  (And yes I tried redownloading)

  high6 March 30, 2009 13:51

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  Hmm... interesting. Given that you've said you've tried re-downloading, you might be having the same problem as I had earlier.
  
  I'd suggest you clear out your browser cache and try to download from here again:
  
  http://reflector.red-gate.com/download.aspx
  
  The reason I suggest this is that, with Firefox at least, it'll assume you want to download the same file twice and will just grab the copy from its cache. If you clear this out, you'll force it to download the fresh version, which you should find is 5.1.5.0.
  
  Hope that helps.
  
  
  Thanks,
  
  
  Bart

  Bart Read March 30, 2009 14:52

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  It is version 5.1.5.0. I right clicked the file, went to properties and checked the file version.

  high6 March 30, 2009 15:45

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  OK thanks. In that case, if it's not running, it's not the update: you've got a different problem there. Unfortunately at the moment I've got no idea what might be causing it, although as an initial suggestion I'd try removing any add-ins and custom configuration before running it.

  Bart Read March 30, 2009 16:11

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  Still happening with a clean download.
  
  Anything in application data?

  high6 March 30, 2009 16:25

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  Update successful for me, no more update nags

  slaneyrw March 30, 2009 19:11

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  The update was also succesful for me.
  
  However, I think Reflector still checks if there is an update available at program start. I often do my SharePoint development in virtual machines that don't have a connection to the internet. Apparently this slows down the Reflector upgrade check, thus resulting in a short (but irritating) waiting period before Reflector actually comes up. It would be nice if Reflector wouldn't look for updates at every program start. Or even better would be to make this configurable from the Options screen.

  stingray March 31, 2009 03:55

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  It would be nice of instead of automatic updates, you simply put a menustrip option for checking for updates.
  
  (Because I have tried several things but I still get the upgrade failing)

  high6 March 31, 2009 18:37

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  It just started working now.

  high6 March 31, 2009 21:00

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