EdnunpandClaude Opus 4.7
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The install helper's robocopy line was:
robocopy "{stagingRoot}" "{installDir}" ...
installDir is AppContext.BaseDirectory, which always ends in a directory
separator, so the destination argument was a quoted path ending in a
backslash: "D:\...\publish\". Windows command-line parsing reads the \"
as an escaped quote, so robocopy never received a valid destination,
rejected the command line, and exited 16 (usage error, nothing copied)
instantly. The auto-updater has never worked in any release because of
this — v1.0-v1.2 failed silently, v1.3+ detected the failure and wrote
update-failed.txt but never fixed the robocopy line.
Fix: BuildInstallScript now strips trailing separators —
stagingArg = stagingRoot.TrimEnd('\','/'), installArg likewise — and
the robocopy line uses the trimmed forms. Verified by running the
corrected robocopy against real staged files: exit 3 (success), files
copied.
The broken helper is baked into every shipped build including v1.8, and
the helper is generated by the running version — so v1.8 and earlier
cannot auto-install v1.9. v1.9 must be installed by hand once; from v1.9
onward the updater works.
No wire-format or audio-pipeline changes — v1.5 through v1.9 interoperate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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RemSound v1.9
A critical fix to the auto-updater. Wire format and audio pipeline are unchanged from v1.4 onward — all versions interoperate.
The fix
The auto-updater now actually installs updates. Every release of RemSound up to and including v1.8 had a fault in the update step: the install-folder path passed to the internal file-copy command ended in a backslash, which Windows mis-interpreted, so the copy command was rejected and no files were ever replaced. "Check for updates" would download the new version, but the swap silently never happened and you stayed on the old version. That copy step is now fixed.
Important — install v1.9 by hand, just this once
Because the fault was in the old version doing the updating, "Check for updates" on v1.8 or earlier cannot install v1.9 — it will download it but fail to apply it. You need to install v1.9 manually this one time. After that the updater works correctly and every future update is automatic.
To install v1.9 over an existing copy:
- Download
RemSound-v1.9.zipfrom this release. - Close RemSound.
- Extract the zip over your existing RemSound folder, overwriting the program files when prompted. The zip contains program files only — it will not touch your profiles or your settings.
- Run
RemSound.exe.
For a fresh install, just extract the zip anywhere you have write permission (e.g. C:\RemSound\, Documents\RemSound\ — avoid Program Files) and run RemSound.exe. Allow on private networks when Windows Firewall prompts. Press F1 for the user manual.
Requires the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime. If it's missing, Windows offers to fetch it on first launch.
From v1.9 onward
Help → Check for updates works properly — v1.9 → v1.10 and every future release installs itself, no manual step needed.