Update Loop

[Beerbelly]

I seem to have an infinite loop of updating. After updating to 3.3.7, Fantasy grounds doesn't want to stop. After it finishes, it loops right back into doing the update again. The only way to get it to stop is to tell it no when windows asks if I want to allow FG to make changes to the computer. I cannot than open FG without it starting the loop again.

I have uninstalled and reinstalled FG already.

What can I do next?

[Moon Wizard]

My guess is that your license key is not valid/active. It should report this in the updater status window.

You can turn on Enhanced Update Logging in FG Settings, and send update.log file from the FG data folder to [email protected]. Then, we can double-check your settings are valid/active.

Regards,
JPG

[Beerbelly]

Is that the update txt file?

[LordEntrails]

Is that the update txt file?

the update.log file is a text file. You can open it in Notepad or other text editors.

[shadowbug]

This is the exact thing that has happened to me, I've had FG for years and now when I did the update it just loops. Did the license end up being the issue for original poster?

[Zacchaeus]

This is the exact thing that has happened to me, I've had FG for years and now when I did the update it just loops. Did the license end up being the issue for original poster?

Hi shadowbug, welcome to FG.

We don't know, but if you are having the same issue and you have made sure that your license is correct and in the correct location and that your username and password are also correct I'd suggest you do the same thing as Moon Wizard advices in post #2 above.

You probably want to refresh all your credentials (ie delete them and re- enter them) rather than just looking to see if they are ok.

[Archamus]

I had this today. For me it was a license key issue. I have a license key that I've had since 2005 I think, and a couple of years ago, when I subscribed to an ultimate license, the fantasy ground settings window changed my main license to something else and kept my original license in the upgrade license section. This worked fine even after I cancelled my subscription to ultimate, until today. I put my original license back in both license fields and it seems to be working fine now. It even fixed my 'check for updates' button so it isn't red constantly.

[Archamus]

Also for what it's worth I didn't see anything in the update.log to indicate it is a license key problem, even though it seems to be, but I didn't think to save the log I had when it wasn't working.

[damned]

You should only have your license in the first field.
The second field is only for the player/lite to full upgrade key.
Standard to Ultimate does NOT go here.

[Archamus]

You should only have your license in the first field.
The second field is only for the player/lite to full upgrade key.
Standard to Ultimate does NOT go here.

Thanks, noted and fixed. I'm honestly not sure how I ended up with a license key in both fields, but didn't worry about it since it didn't seem to be an issue. The main point though, is that perhaps people need to double check that they aren't using an ultimate license key that they stopped subscribing to. That appears to have been the issue for me, even though it had worked as a standard install for quite a while after I'd unsubscribed. Once I replaced that ultimate license key with my original standard key today, it worked perfectly.