Squirrel.windows: Shorcut Target Is Wrong

Created on 8 Jan 2017 · 8Comments · Source: Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows

Hey guys,

The shortcut target is wrong, instead of C:\Users\kbailey\AppData\Local\MyApp\Update.exe --processStart MyApp.exe is created C:\Users\kbailey\AppData\Local\MyApp\MyApp.exe.

Then this shortcut created doesnt works. =\

Source

leandroribeiro

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This is intended. The behaviour was changed a while ago. More details in PR #868

aaababei on 10 Jan 2017

Right, but after this change the shortcut doesn't works and crash my application before run it.

My temporary fix was to get back to 1.4.4 version.

leandroribeiro on 10 Jan 2017

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I may be experiencing this as well. Please see my question on SO and see if you're experiencing the same thing.

gregsdennis on 30 Mar 2017

Confirmed that reverting to v1.4.4 fixed the issue.

gregsdennis on 31 Mar 2017

Is there any resolution to this? I am migrating our app from 1.4.4 to 1.7.5 and when it updates the shortcut points to appname.exe in the root folder but the stub is never copied there. The appname_ExecutionStub.exe remains in the app-x.x.x directory. It appears that that is the only step that is missed. If I copy and rename the execution stub the shortcut works fine.

If I uninstall and install the new version it works fine so it only appears to be a problem on updates. Am I missing something on upgrading Squirrel beyond 1.4.4? Or am I looking at reinstalling on each desktop?