Question about dll updates.

[DavidJ]

Good evening, once again!

For the last few years I've been using only Yahoo as my source for prices, and I update transactions by hand only. I therefore rarely need updates to the data-source dll. However, FM asks me if I want to update very frequently, when it's open, maybe every day.

Is there any way that I could temporarily turn off the dll update question?

Thanks.
David.

[Mark]

Hi David,

Sorry, this isn't an option. It will check for updates up to once per day maximum. If you download the update, this will stop the notices that there are updates available. The updates are not very frequent, and rather small/fast to download.

[DavidJ]

Well, please think about turning off the update question as a possibility for the future (unless I'm in a very small minority, of course).

Thanks.
David.

[Mark]

Hi David,

Okay, thanks for the feedback. Is there some reason you don't want the updates? It only notifies you of free updates that are available for your version.

[DavidJ]

Hi!

I was about to answer that I remembered that there was also some problem with the updates because I run FM using runas from my User account, though it's installed in the Administrator account. Then I decided to try to accept the dll update.

It gave me a bunch of error messages, and then refused to update pries at all, saying that inteng9x.dll was missing, which it is. I will try to copy that dll from some backup somewhere, and it that doesn't work - and if you have no other ideas - I'll just uninstall FM and reinstall it as two separate users. As you see, I've been having a lot of trouble with FM generally the last few days. Maybe a more conventional configuration will help.

Thanks.
David.

A few minutes later: Well I reinstalled the dll from a backup, and it's updating prices fine now, but I guess that that's the reason I didn't want to accept the dll updates.

Thanks again.
David.

[Mark]

Hi David,

Sorry about the troubles. What was the first error message? It sounds like for some reason your download failed. You don't have to re-install. You can just attempt the download again using "Help / FM on the Web / Check for Updates...". Please make sure you are using version 9.5, as there was a bug in 9.0 - 9.2 versions where the download could incorrectly report that it failed.