Improper upgrade of portable version causes crash

[spring6678]

After upgrading the latest version, the file transfer process prompts an error, click and close to exit. Thanks!

[CoconutHR]

I ran into the same issue.
In my case, I upgraded the software through the built-in updater, and then I encountered another problem:

syncthing.exe: error: unknown flag -n, did you mean one of "-h", "-C", "-D", "-H"?

Not sure if this is related, but it happened right after the upgrade.

[CoconutHR]

I ran into the same issue. In my case, I upgraded the software through the built-in updater, and then I encountered another problem:

syncthing.exe: error: unknown flag -n, did you mean one of "-h", "-C", "-D", "-H"?

Not sure if this is related, but it happened right after the upgrade.

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I noticed that in the SyncTrayzorPortable-x64\data\ folder there were two files: syncthing.exe.old and syncthing.exe.
I renamed syncthing.exe to syncthing.exe.new, then renamed syncthing.exe.old back to syncthing.exe, which effectively rolled back to a working version.
This serves as a temporary workaround for me.

[GermanCoding]

@CoconutHR Please see issue #50

@spring6678 That's a localization problem, the translation is incorrect. I thought I had catched all of these, but apparently not. Will fix. As a temporary fix, you can revert to the default locale (English), which shouldn't have this problem: File -> Settings -> SyncTrayzor -> Uncheck "Use my computer's language"

[GermanCoding]

Actually, I cannot reproduce: All the translation strings look correct and the erroring string shouldn't even exist in SyncTrayzor v2. I suspect that these are old files from v1 still lingering around causing issues. How did you upgrade your portable version from v1 to v2 exactly? Could you detail the steps? (In particular, you cannot just copy over the files of v2 into a v1 portable, that would likely cause the exact issue you're seeing)

Could you also attempt a clean install of the v2 portable and see if it reproduces there. If it does, please share the full log.

As a general advisory, the proper manual update process for a portable install is documented in the README:

Portable

SyncTrayzor Portable will put its own configuration in SyncTrayzorPortable\data, and tell Syncthing to use > SyncTrayzorPortable\data\syncthing for its database. This means that, when manually upgrading, you can simply move the 'data' > folder over to move all your settings and database.

(Meaning: Always use a fresh folder for a new portable version, then copy over the data folder from the old folder, but nothing else)

[spring6678]

@GermanCoding
According to the standard upgrade method, first save the DATA folder, and then copy the DATA folder to the program directory, everything is normal, no error. Thank you very much for your advice, thank you!

[GermanCoding]

For everyone else experiencing this issue, please refer to my earlier comment about how to upgrade the portable version from v1 to v2:

How did you upgrade your portable version from v1 to v2 exactly? Could you detail the steps? (In particular, you cannot just copy over the files of v2 into a v1 portable, that would likely cause the exact issue you're seeing)

Could you also attempt a clean install of the v2 portable and see if it reproduces there. If it does, please share the full log.

As a general advisory, the proper manual update process for a portable install is documented in the README:

Portable

SyncTrayzor Portable will put its own configuration in SyncTrayzorPortable\data, and tell Syncthing to use > SyncTrayzorPortable\data\syncthing for its database. This means that, when manually upgrading, you can simply move the 'data' > folder over to move all your settings and database.

(Meaning: Always use a fresh folder for a new portable version, then copy over the data folder from the old folder, but nothing else)

It is not possible to just "copy over" the v1 files with the v2 files, due to conflicting outdated files not present in v2. The correct update process has always been to only copy over the data folder, but not the main installation data. Both the installed and portable auto-upgrades also do this in a similar way.