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  • January 20, 2010 at 6:25 pm #4616
    Suriban
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    I get a message when i tried to upgrade.

    Upgrade failed!
    If you experience problems,
    please restart the program!

    I thought it might be everyone but people seem to be talking about the upgrade here. I recently installed a new firewall, so I tried turning it off. I also tried running the updater as an administrator but still no luck.

    Any thoughts? I'm using Vista if that's relevant.

    January 20, 2010 at 6:28 pm #12847
    Suriban
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    One more thing; it seems to download just fine but when it gets to extracting compressed files is when I get the error message…

    I think this damn firewall is doing more harm than good.

    January 20, 2010 at 9:34 pm #12848
    tom
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    I don't think that is the firewall… could you please send us the file versionupgrade.log from upgrade_dir of AChat? Can you find the directory?
    If yes, where is your AChat client installed to?
    tom

    January 20, 2010 at 10:12 pm #12849
    Suriban
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    This is all it says in versionupgrade.log

    Checking version and updating as needed…
    Local release: 1
    Server release: 1
    Local version: 45
    Version on the server: 46
    Downloading upgrade_dir46.7z
    Cannot open extract log for reading!!!
    Could not collect decompressed files !!!

    Do you still want me to send it? Should I post what it says in extract.log as well since it says it can't open it?
    I'm pretty sure I left AChat install in the default location when I installed it and I've never had problems upgrading before.
    In Vista it's in the ..AppDataLocalAChat folder

    January 24, 2010 at 5:50 pm #12850
    gingerteri
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    I get the same error message and i am running 64bit win XP

    January 25, 2010 at 1:22 pm #12851
    Suriban
    Participant

    This is so annoying. Now there has been an update again and I can't get it. There are threesomes now? 😮
    Please tell me what I should do to fix this problem.

    January 25, 2010 at 1:47 pm #12852
    Nicoquin
    Participant

    did you try to uninstall, reinstall ?

    January 25, 2010 at 3:59 pm #12853
    tom
    Participant

    One possible reason can be, that you use another Windows user, than you have used when AChat was installed.
    tom

    January 25, 2010 at 8:21 pm #12854
    Suriban
    Participant

    Thanks for the suggestions but as odd as it sounds, it was the firewall :-

    Tried uninstalling/reinstalling AChat and still the same problem.

    Disabling the firewall wasn’t doing anything so I gave up and completely uninstalled and now it’s working.

    Updating fine now, and looking forward to trying some 3somes

    ;D

    January 26, 2010 at 12:50 pm #12855
    tom
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    Thank you for the info!

    Just to understand it better: what have you completely uninstalled? Did you have separated firewall program? (Windows has its own built in firewall.)
    I am asking because the upgrade program uses only simple download, so if you can browse and download the upgrade should actually work… (except the case I have mentioned)

    tom

    January 26, 2010 at 1:38 pm #12856
    Suriban
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    It was a separate firewall called Sunbelt Personal Firewall
    http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/home-home-office/sunbelt-personal-firewall/

    I didn't have the Windows firewall activated when I upgraded but I have had no problems with that previously.

    Sunbelt is a very tricky firewall: Once I clicked the “go to shop” button in AChat and because it tried to open my browser the firewall thought it was an ad and blocked it. Then every time i tried to go to the shop, even manually typing the address or navigating through the site, it thought it was an ad and blocked it. I had to disable the firewall to shop too 

    I'm sure there was some way to stop it treating the updates as unwanted changes to a program and the shop as an ad but it was pissing me off in other ways too, so it's best for me to get a new firewall. I hope that answers your question.

    January 26, 2010 at 5:57 pm #12857
    tom
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    thank you very much for the info 
    it will help us to solve reported problems!
    tom

    January 26, 2010 at 6:29 pm #12858
    Suriban
    Participant

    No problem, glad I can help

    And it should be noted that this is really the first problem I've had with AChat since I started using it months ago. So thanks to the AChat staff

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