I prefer to do my updates locally after downloading the installer files.
I maintain my own PC and also my wife's. Thus, I want to download once
and install twice.
For an incremental update of a Mozilla-based applications, I download
the .partial.mar file. Then I use a DOS script to do the install.
Today is the first time I tried this with my new Windows 7 PC using
seamonkey-2.22-2.22.1.partial.mar. Oops! It happens that a .mar file
in Windows 7 is a Microsoft Office Access Report Shortcut file, and a
.partial file is an IE Partial Download file. Thus, the downloaded
SeaMonkey update has an icon with a bent arrow in the lower-left corner
to indicate it is a shortcut.
Worse, the actual file name got changed to
seamonkey-2.22-2.22.1.partial.mar.mar. Yes, the .mar extension now
appears twice at the end of the file name! This doubled extension is
not visible when viewing the file in a Windows Explorer window; only one
.mar is seen. Also, the FTP log that I get when I download files does
not show the doubled extension. I had to use a DOS window to see it.
Apparently, Windows 7 added the extra .mar.
This doubled extension, of course broke my script and the Mozilla
updater.exe that it uses. Since updater.exe requires the .mar file to
be named update.mar, I had to add the following to my DOS script:
If EXIST update.mar.mar ren update.mar.mar update.mar
Followup-To set to mozilla.support.seamonkey.
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