1.5 updated to 2.1?!?

I have no idea how this has happened, but I went to run my DCS 1.5 install a little while ago after playing around in 2.1. I got the pop up that said the DCS updater has a new version, do I wish to update... Yes.

It fired up and its looks like 2.1, in the bottom right it says 2.1 and I get a pop up telling me that I don't have the terrain installed... Odd I thought, I must have launched 2.1 by mistake. Exited to desktop, re-started. Same thing... Exited to desktop 'Open file location' for the shortcut, takes me to the DCS 1.5 installation folder.

Started it again, went to the module manager and it tells me that the Normandy and Nevada terrain are available, do I want to download, I click yes to see what it does and it's now 3/4 of the way through copying just short of 50GB of files from my DCS World 2 install directory!

Here's the Auto Update Log

autoupdate_log_old.txt

Your "basedir" line says you named it as 1.5, but the version info clearly indicates, that before the update, the folder already had 2.0.5 in it, so looks like you somehow overwritten your 1.5 with 2.0 previously.

Well, whatever happened there, your 1.5 is dead for good. I suppose you could try to convert this failed copy back into 1.5 spec using relevant command line, but it's going to be safer to ditch the thing and reinstall from scratch.

Just make sure you don't execute anything form your current "proper" 2.1 folder install! :D

Edit - sniped by BN!

Guaranteed that this morning before starting the update of 2.0 to 2.1 that the 1.5 was un-modified and unchanged as I was flying one of the Viggen training missions in Georgia. I haven't touched it since quitting that, and I swear that I haven't tried any tricks.

The only thing I have done today was update Skate Zilla's Updater tool to try and get the Normandy terrain installed as I couldn't see it in the 2.1 Modules section. That did fail however and told me that NORMANDY_terrain was an unknown module. I did the cmd line one after that and it worked, so maybe that had something to do with it.

Sure is odd, but yeah, I've already figured that 1.5 is dead now and I'll need a fresh install.

Guaranteed that this morning before starting the update of 2.0 to 2.1 that the 1.5 was un-modified and unchanged as I was flying one of the Viggen training missions in Georgia. I haven't touched it since quitting that, and I swear that I haven't tried any tricks.

 

The only thing I have done today was update Skate Zilla's Updater tool to try and get the Normandy terrain installed as I couldn't see it in the 2.1 Modules section. That did fail however and told me that NORMANDY_terrain was an unknown module. I did the cmd line one after that and it worked, so maybe that had something to do with it.

 

Sure is odd, but yeah, I've already figured that 1.5 is dead now and I'll need a fresh install.

Hi i know what happend , had it myself this evening !

you have updated dcs 1.5 through skatezilla's updater utility with the wrong settings ! you have set , select build to manage to release build , and you pushed on button , update to latest open alpha version!!!

solution , set select build to manage to release built , and push , update to release version!!this should work !!!!

Updating using the Windows Start Menu selection (created by the installation process) or the executable directly from the command line, instead of a 3rd party external program not supported by ED, will always keep something like this from happening.