GHelper auto update fails to extract and start new version

[ghost-of-cerberus]

Rules

• I made myself familiar with the Readme, FAQ and Troubleshooting.
• I understand that, if insufficient information or no app logs will be provided, my issue will be closed without an answer.

What's wrong?

GHelper auto update doesn't work if installed in a location with special characters in the path.

How to reproduce the bug?

1. Download latest release
2. Unzip to a folder containing allowable special characters in the path (i.e., [ ] . _ etc) (e.g., C:\Users\joebloggs\[_special]\GHelper)
3. Run GHelper.exe
4. When notified and prompted to download a new g-helper release, select yes/okay

At this point, the new version of GHelper is downloaded to the executable folder and the running version is closed but is not replaced or restarted.

Logs

log.txt

Device and Model

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402XZ

Additional information.

No response

Armoury Crate

Uninstalled

Asus Services

0

Version

0.200

OS

Windows 11 Pro 23H2

[seerge]

@ghost-of-cerberus hello, can you check if this build correctly prompts for an update and updates itself ? (it has "fake" version number in order to trigger update)

GHelper.zip

[ghost-of-cerberus]

@seerge hi. Tried it but it takes a bit to load and doesn't prompt to update. Tried a few times.

Version displayed in the app is 0.200.

log.txt

Should I try with a clean config?

[seerge]

@ghost-of-cerberus ok, my bad. By some reason it was compiled with the latest version :)

Try this build instead.

GHelper.zip

I have also added an automatic restart with admin-permission on Auto Update if folder containing GHelper.exe requires them (like C:\Program Files\GHelper as some people do)

@osomat123 - you can also try this build, it should work for your case too :)

Thanks

[ghost-of-cerberus]

@seerge no worries. :)

Tried the new build and received the following results:

Test Description	Result	Comment
Existing path in logs	Success
Test including --_!$%^&()=+,.';#~{} in path	Failed	New version downloaded but not installed/started
Test including Unicode characters in path	Success
Test secure path requiring admin privileges	Failed	Prompted for admin credentials when approving update. GHelper closes and reopens but does not download update. Prompts to upgrade again immediately on reload.

Relevant logs: log.txt

Same device and configuration as initial report.

Thanks!

[seerge]

@ghost-of-cerberus

For --_!$%^&()=+,.';#~{} the ' symbol was a problem, it has to be escaped as well.

For admin privileges I didn't plan to add automatic download past restart with them. So actually app acts as expected, it offers to update again (but this time with admin rights, so it will work)

However I have changed this, and now it will run update process immediately after restarting as admin.

Try this build
GHelper.zip

[ghost-of-cerberus]

@seerge interestingly, the ANSI/ASCII special characters path and normal path tests are the only ones that work now.

The Unicode and admin access tests appear to download the new version but fails to extract the new version and just deletes the download.

log.txt

Cheers!

[seerge]

@ghost-of-cerberus hello,

Can you check this build ? For me it works in all 3 "exotic" cases
<anything>\TEST--😒⌛
<anything>\--_!$%^&()=+,.';#~{}
C:\Program Files\GHelper

GHelper.zip

Thanks

[ghost-of-cerberus]

@seerge Also works for me in all three instances.

Thanks for the work on this!

[seerge]

@ghost-of-cerberus finally :) Thanks for a detailed testing!

[ghost-of-cerberus]

@seerge no worries. Happy to help!