oh yeah, it worked. too well! when it said it would overwrite files, i assumed it meant any files with the same file names. nope! it wiped everything in the folder! all of my family pics, important docs, and everything else! grrrrrrrrrr. doing a system restore didn't bring any of those items back, either. i'm not a happy camper at the moment. right now, i'm slapping any old drives i have in the docking station trying to find one that may have copies of these items.

i'm sad to say i don't. i'm pretty distraught right now. quite a few of those pics can't be replaced. i guess it's my fault but why would tweak 7 feel the need to overwrite what is already in a folder? what advantage is there to doing that?

btw, unless i'm missing something,  tweak 7 doesn't move the public folders which are where wb and ip store their skins.

zubaz, it did give a warning. it said files int he folder wold be overwritten. i assumed it meant files with the same names would be overwritten not EVERY file.

i'm fairly certain i've lost all my pics and docs.

i will try your suggestion regarding public folders when i get over the anger i'm experiencing now.

i have to admit i'm pretty aggravated over the skins being stored on the SSD by deafult. i know for a fact i could put wb skins on a secondary drive back in the xp days. i have a 240 gb SSD but i don't want to fill it up with frivolous stuff. a person needs to keep 1/2 the SSD's capacity open before the performance of the SSD starts to degrade. i can put quite a bit on there but the less i HAVE to put on there, the better.

I think there's a bit of a misunderstanding. Stardock Central will not auto-update Stardock software. It will download them and then notify you that updates are available. What Stardock Central does is auto-update itself. This means if Stardock Central 2.70 is live, your installed copy of Stardock Central will automatically update to 2.70 without any action required from you.

We discussed this during development but decided not to implement it at this time. Perhaps in a future update...

This will be fixed in the next update.

Bara

Still can't understand why I cannot see all my stardock purchase in SDC and why on my account page many of them still require impulse (now gamestop download).

I can download Demigod, but the two additional demigod require Impulse (didn't tried but it say so)

I can see GalCiv I and download it, but I cannot see it in SDC

GalCiv II require Impulse

SoSE require Impulse

Corporate Machine require Impulse

Political Machine require Impulse

On the side note, I would suggest to add options to only archive download. Now you can say to not install silently, but It will prompt anyway. I would like to download and install in a second moment.

Is there a chance to have a temporary list of thing you are planning to convert, so that we know? Thanks

I expect all stardock games to be available on SDC, expecially the ones that was available with the old sdc.

I can pass over the fact that I'll have to use Impulse for third party games, but for stardock games we were forced to use Impulse and I would like to avoid to pay for that. Also If I can buy the same product from stardock and than have it available, I don't see why It cannot be converted to work for previous custormers.

Other that aborting an install after download, is there or will there be a way to download software for archiving or installing later? This is on new installs, not updates.

Aborting does work but requires too many extra steps,imo.

That doesn't work with a new install. For example. I wanted to dl OD Plus 2 which isn't installed. It downloaded and proceeded to install. It did not give an option to cancel the install, only the download. I closed SDC then aborted the install. SDC is set to Ask...and let me decide and to show betas. all other settings unchecked.

Yes and yes.

Yes, please!    

And what if you no longer have Impulse installed? I got rid of Impulse about a year ago. I'm sure I still have some ObjectDesktop apps which were installed with Impulse. Is there an alternative way to flush those old apps and then download them with SDC? Oh, and how can you tell which apps were installed with Impulse? hehe

Updated fine on my XP HP laptop. All the new additions are working fine. Great update!