Upgrade to 1.6.8 fails with .exe installer

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I am having problems with the upgrade to 1.6.8, however, only if I use the .exe installer. If I use the .msi installer everything works fine.

I have been using the .msi installer for previous installations and installed the WinFsp package manually. Noticing that the .exe installer comes with the latest version of the WinFsp package, I decided to switch to the .exe installer, hoping not having to worry about the latest version of WinFsp in the furure.

The .exe installer however, still seems to stumble across a “Running instance of Cryptomator”.

Several tries to uninstall Cryptomator and WinFsp, rebooting after each action, did not solve the issue, neither did using ProcExplorer to spot the running instance.

A workaround (for me) is to keep using the .msi installer and manually install WinFsp. It would be nice however, if this somehow could be fixed.

Thanks.

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Did you download the exe installer just now or quite early when we’ve first drafted the release? Because we re-released the exe installer at some point due to the error you’ve described. Very unfortunate that this has happened but it should be fixed by now.

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I re-downloaded earlier today, but to be sure I’ll try it again.

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For reference: Cryptomator-1.6.8-x64.exe installation error · Issue #2144 · cryptomator/cryptomator · GitHub

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The new download (with a different sha256) fixed the issue.

Strangely enough, it did not fix it during the first try, so I wanted to do it a second time in order to look at the running processes, but then it went through smoothly. End good, all good.

Thanks.

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