The file downloaded is larger than expected?
So what does this mean?
Friday, December 11, 2009 by WebGizmos | Discussion: WindowBlinds
Just tried installing the most recent update of WindowBlinds through impulse and this is what I got..."The file downloaded is larger than expected." So...now what?
Reply #2 Friday, December 11, 2009 6:49 AM
Keep trying till you get the smaller file?????? 
Sorry i just woke up and I couldn't resist!!
Reply #3 Friday, December 11, 2009 8:08 AM
Yeah....this is a new one. How did it know what I was expecting anyway? 
Oh....wait a minute...that didn't sound quite right did it. 
Reply #4 Friday, December 11, 2009 10:01 AM
I had the same issue. The only way I found to get the update was to uninstall WB's then reinstall it. PITA,but it works.
Reply #5 Saturday, December 12, 2009 1:18 AM
Earlier tonight, US time I was sending debug logs to Nakor re this issue.....the advantages of multiple VMs....looks like it is related to the MD5 ..... give it a little time and it'll be resolved...
Reply #7 Sunday, December 13, 2009 4:51 PM
So I guess it'll be some time this week that this gets fixed? Hopefully!
Reply #8 Sunday, December 13, 2009 6:39 PM
Kris and I were dealing with it both out-of-hours....so it'll be sometime when it's 'normal' US office hours....before it can be fully sorted....
Reply #9 Monday, December 14, 2009 1:43 AM
Kinda figured that...but was just checking. 
Reply #10 Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:14 PM
Hey guys, I finally think I understand what happens. It's very strange, but it works. The idea came because the support told me regarding another issue (the Windows Explorer Crash) that I have to "verify" my installation. Sorry if it sounds more complicated how I explain it, but my English is not perfect.... (as you might know already *ggg*). Well, let's start:
If Impulse doesen't recognize the installation properly (check this with the right mouse click on the app in impulse and choose "verify installation") Impulse would *really* like to download (parts of the program) again in order to update the installation.
The problem is, that this kind of update is hidden and does not appear in the "Update" tab but is shown only with a right mouse click on the application (WindowBlinds) in the "My Software" tab.
So when trying in such a situation to update with a "real" update available in the "Update tab" impulse is internally still waiting for a "correction update" of the incorrect installation (the one which is only available with the right mouse click). Of course then the file size of the "real" update never matches the expected file size of this internally "correction update" Impulse is waiting for.
I had to to this "correction update" twice until Impulse was satisfied, first it was about 20.81 MB and about 800 files. After a reboot I verified the installation again and still it stated that it's incorrect.
So I did it again and this time the download only was 3.09 MB and 408 files. After another reboot now it says that my installation is correct.
With that I finally could update the 7.01 Beta which turned out to be only 4.11MB and 410 files. At the end the update worked without any problem.
What I think is that #1) Impulse is very intransparent in order to know what's really going on and #2) it's a strange thing with this "correction updates" because these are not availabe in the "Update tab" and I reckon no average user has a chance to find out that Impulse refuses regular updates (especially not with this "file downloaded is larger than expected" error) until this correction updates are done.
But although I spent so much time with all this stuff on account of my family I'm finally happy that at least I could install the update now. Let's see if with the 7.01 Beta my permanent Explorer crashes will stop....
Reply #12 Tuesday, December 15, 2009 9:30 PM
Not for me...yet...on my VM....
Reply #13 Tuesday, December 15, 2009 10:48 PM
Bummer Jafo! Always something with these things! 
Should have said "seems" to be fixed! 
Reply #14 Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:45 AM
Had a bit of a chat with Nakor and Dean....managed to get it to update correctly on 2 systems...so the cure does work.
I was just on the wrong side of the world and missed it a bit...
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Reply #1 Friday, December 11, 2009 6:05 AM
Expect larger?
Sorry....couldn't resist. But consider this a BUMP if nothing else