[windows] Hard to figure version number

Bug #1126139 reported by Loïc Minier
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu One Client
Confirmed
Medium
Ubuntu One Client Engineering team

Bug Description

Hi,

This might be by design, but it's hard to figure the locally installed and also latest versions of Ubuntu One for Windows.

I've discovered this while trying to check the local and remote version number, and I've found this really hard. The version number would show up as 4.0.0 in the Windows list of programs that can be uninstalled before the update, but after the update I couldn't tell which version I was running (filing a separate bug for this). It's also not obvious to tell which version is up for download, short of downloading the file and seeing that it's named -4.x.y.exe.

There is a 0.1 version number in syncdaemon.log which seems to come from windows/clientdefs.py and isn't helpful at all in the log since it's meaninless.

There's also a version_id = 1004 in C:\Program Files (x86)\ubuntuone\update.ini but https://one.ubuntu.com/windows/update.xml says versionId 4191 (which at least somewhat maps to 4.1.91).

Thanks,

Revision history for this message
Loïc Minier (lool) wrote :

bug #1126142 is about U1 disappearing from Windows installed program list after an update, which is a place where one can otherwise get a U1 version number from.

summary: - Hard to figure version number
+ [windows] Hard to figure version number
Julien Funk (jaboing)
Changed in ubuntuone-client:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu One Client Engineering team (ubuntuone-client-engineering)
tags: added: u1-by-dev u1-on-production u1-windows
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Brian Curtin (brian.curtin) wrote :

I just moved bug #978149 to higher priority since we've been hearing about this a few times lately, so I'll mark this as a duplicate. We're going to get a better version situation figured out for the syncdaemon log and get something displayed inside the Control Panel.

Thanks for the report.

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