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Baol Posts: 3
25/01/2018
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Hi, greetings to all from Pisa, Italy.
I apologize in advance if I will say and will ask for obvious things, but I could not find information about it.
I use Symenu (for me, the best program of its kind, there's no need to say it)
and many portable applications directly on my Hard Drive.
Reasons are the great flexibility of portable applications in comparison to installed application
(for example, changing versions/settings/data is just a matter of moving 2 folders)
and the fact that resetting the system is much faster
(format, reinstall O.S., put back my portable apps folder and I'm almost done).
Probably portable apps are slightly slower and less integrated with the system:
that involves some problems but I accept them quietly, I consider them much less than the advantages.
One of the above-mentioned problems is that usually it's not possible/advisable to update apps through their integrated functions:
doing so, often turns portable apps into installed ones; so you have to update them manually.
I didn't say anything that you all do not already know well:
manually updating apps is an extremely boring/time consuming process, so I'm always happy when I find an alternative.
That's the reason why I've moved to SPS Manager all my apps that it supports.
And here is my problem: it happens that an app has an update, but the SPS doesn't report it (yet).
It's ok, I understand there's life outside the PC  , so SPS may not be immediately updated;
but there are apps that have not been updated for several months , and they are not yet.
In that case, I'd revert to do a manual update but there's no way to update manually the apps and make the SPS Manager accept them:
if You try to do it, even renaming suitably the XXX.sps.version file in the app folder,
the SPS Manager relies on its XXX.sps file only (contained in the YYY.sps.zip file, in the "cache" folder), sees the version it's different
and claims there's an update, no matter if it actually refers to an older version.
Of course, if You do it, the app rolls back to the version stated by the SPS Manager.
You can avoid this by extracting the appropriate XXX.sps from the zip file, editing it, putting it back to its place and
restarting Symenu/SPS Manager:
obviously, that's not a solution (I just did it as a test); moreover, You loose the file the next day, when You check for newer definitions.
You can rename your XXX.sps.version file to 0.00.sps.version, so SPS Manager will not tell anything about updates
but you cannot see which version you really have in the SPS Manager greed, loosing a useful information.
I even tried to create my personal SPS file
(by the way: _CacheCustom folder is not present in the SyMenuSuite Folder and if I create it, it's ignored.
Path is [...]SyMenu\ProgramFiles\SPSSuite\SyMenuSuite\_CacheCustom),
SPS Builder says it's correct, but I cannot see the app in the SPS Manager.
Anyway, it would not be very useful for a single user:
when the update is missing for a long time, it would be better (with regrets) to renounce to SPS, put the apps back in their previous state
and go back to completely updating them manually; it would take less time.
Unless there is something I have not understood:
is there a way to make manual updates acceptable for the SPS Manager?
If I understood correctly and there is currently no way to do it, do you think it will be possible in the future?
Thanks and bye.
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