I is very simple, I took the habit to first, use the "FSDT Universal Installer" to update and then AFTER, to always run the last version of your "OFFLINE Installer" I have just downloaded, without anymore, to even try to understand/check if the Universal Installer has fully or not fully installed the last version (local cloudflare outdated or not).
That exactly what the instructions here are saying, run it after the Live Update.
Your version of the procedure is different only because you don't want to pay notice if the some files (other then the ones the instructions say are always supposed to be redownloaded ) are getting re-downloaded over and over, which would be a symptom your local node is not updated, so you always use the offline installer.
No problem with that, it will surely work, the only thing you'll risk is to download the offline installer when there wasn't any reason to do so, but it will always work.
? Because, your system is so nebulous, without any clear & explicit feed back's for both Install & Check functions, that doing that way, I am almost sure to have the last version, fully and properly installed.
The system is very clear and in fact, you are confirming yourself you are getting it, at least the part that running the Offline installer as the last thing to do will get you the latest version of the code. You still seem to have issues about the next part, the one below: understanding when you don't need it.
OK, since some versions, this Universal Installer has a version and a button "Update/Check". But when I press "Check" the program behave like if it update stuff's (writing a lot of time the "update" word in its actions descriptions, which are a lot, almost like a regular update, in fact) and NEVER say, at the end "Your local cloudflare and installed version is complete and up to date", which is what I would expect from a "Check" function.
You making it sound as if this is a problem. The button is just NAMED "Check", but what it does it's always an "Update", meaning the code it runs when you click it is exactly the same.
It's like this following users suggestions, who in the previous version ( which always said "Update" ), were confused by assuming that, when they saw "Update", it was some kind of notification of a new version, so we had to explain than no, the button wasn't an indication of some status, it was just a way to start a update Check. Now, it says "Update" only when the version you have doesn't match what's on the server, and it goes to "Check" if the match so yes, now it also indicates an "Update is available".
But again, it's running exactly the same code.
You said you are being confused by the usage of the "update" words in the action *description*. Not sure how exactly the program would be easier to understand if the description started with "checking if there's an update for", other than taking more screen space and giving less time to read it.
But that's besides the point. The point is, to understand if your local cloudflare node *might* have a problem, which would require to use the Offline installer, the instructions here clearly said to pay attention to what is being DOWNLOADED, and it clearly indicates 3 categories of files that will always be downloaded, under the big, bold "IMPORTANT NOTE" heading which I'll copy it again here:
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Airport Services and Jetways sceneries ZIP files are supposed to be always downloaded, this is normal. Those kind of files are thousands of very small files that compress very well, so we found it was faster to always redownload them as single ZIP files, then check thousands of individual files if they are in need of an update.
Unencrypted versions of FSDT airport files for FSDT sceneries bought on the MS Marketplace will also be downloaded every time, this is also normal.
Instead of the action description, you should pay attention to the log that is happening below the progress bars, and the keyword here is
DOWNLOADINGSo, putting together the previous informations, it becomes very easy knowing if you need the Offline installer or not:
- Do you see any files
OTHER then the The Airport Services, the Jetways ZIP files and FSDT GSX profiles being DOWNLOADED over and over, even if you run the Live Update twice in a row ?
- If YES, then you NEED the Offline installer, because your local cloudflare node hasn't been updated yet.
- If NO, your local node is up to date, so you don't need the Offline installer.
