Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 04:21:09 03/09/03
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On March 08, 2003 at 13:19:49, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >On March 08, 2003 at 12:34:46, Alastair Scott wrote: > >>i. You must have installed an original (27 November 2002) version of F8 without >>any of the subsequent semi-official upgrades; > >I had a Februari 9 unofficial patch installed, and it worked without problems. >However trying all kinds of official and unofficial patches could screw up >things. > >> >>ii. You must have logged on to playchess.com with a username and password (not >>Guest); > >ChessBase states that you don't have to register on playchess to get an update >if you own the program. With me it worked also loggin in as a guest. > >> >>iii. You must have entered the serial number from the front page of the manual >>after you logged on but before you tried the upgrade; > >Since ii. isn't necessary, this isn't necessary also. > >> >>iv. Personal firewalls should be turned off for the duration of the upgrade. > > >I run Zonealarm Pro all the time without running into update problems. Granting >access of the server software is sufficient, as for any outboud or incoming >program. > >>The answer to 'why' is 'the Fritz 8 upgrade process is a poor piece of work', >>sadly. > >On this I think you're partially right. It may well be that the compulsory >habits of us here getting every minor update - official or not - might >compromise the regular updates. Remember no one was informed by ChessBase about >these earlier updates. > >If we nevertheless screw around with them while we only heard about them through >the grapevine the risk of future update malfunction is ours. > >J. After an eror after which the program crashed I run Iupgrade after which the upgrade finaly worked. But you know I didn't have all other versions Because they didn't work. Before I also could not register the program. Because the server could not find the right website. Marc
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