Custom & VIntage SDX won’t update – multiple attempts

[Miroslav]

I’ve downloaded/extracted and attempted to install it multiple times…there is something wrong with the update files in this SDX.

I get the initial “Run” window for it when I click on the installer…and then that’s it…there is no follow up window showing the directory and the progress.
If I open Task Manager…I can see the installer process, and it’s just hanging there….using about 25% CPU and 15% memory…but it never moves forward.
This is on a Win 7 machine.
I’ve downloaded and installed more than a dozen of the other updates I needed for SD3…both EZX and SDX updates…including the SD3 update and core library…and the Custom & Vintage SDX is the only one not installing, so it’s not my computer, it’s the update…something is corrupt with it.

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[Markus Wagner]

See the workaround of Mario Krušelj (also known as Evil Dragon) from September 13, 2017, 4:27 pm CEST.
https://www.toontrack.com/forum/product-manager-support/metal-foundry-1-5-0-update-not-updating/

“This happened over here too, W10.
I killed the installer process and just wrote over the update files (in “Contents” folder) manually. Everything worked thereafter.”

[Miroslav]

OK…I was able to get Custom & Vintage to work by doing the above…simply copying the entire contents of the downloaded update over to the existing folder where the previous version was installed…and that seems to work. I no longer get the “Need Update” pop-up in SD3 for the Custom & Vintage SDX. Not sure if doing it like this screws anything up…but we’ll see. Still the updater needs to be fixed.

Aside from that, I now have a couple of other packs where the updates have no effect. Specifically The Classic EZX and also the Pop! EZX.
Unlike the Custom & Vintage issue, the updates to these two DO install just fine…BUT…they have no effect. When I try to open them in SD3, I still get the “Need Update” pop-ups.
When I look at the files that are in the Content folders of these updates…all the files are very old…from 2012-14…so it’s no wonder that SD3 still keeps saying “Need Update” even after I installed the “updates”.

Can you guys please go through all the EZX/SDX installers you have posted and check which are actual *updates* that will work with SD3.
It’s pretty tedious as it is having to download all these huge sample packs and updates, and then install them, only to find out they don’t woprk at all or they don’t actually “update” so that SD3 recognizes them.
It’s just frustrating the amount of time that is spent just trying to download, install and update to get SD3 all happy. I spent ALL DAY and half the night screwing around with this…some updates working, others not…more downloads, more attempts….etc…etc.

Also…provide a very precise clear list in the FAQ section which EZX packs (if any) simply will never work with SD3 because of their old/1st version code. I know there must be a few…but it sucks having to find out through trial and error.

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