Wonderful program! I use it to check for new versions and update almost all my thumbdrive apps. I especially love those apps that have a zipped version available as Ketarin downloads it and then unzips it to the final directory on my thumbdrive. Now aside form the AV installers and such, even my portable apps are always the latest version!
BTW, figuring out the unzip commands for me was a bit of a pain so I thought I’d share it.
You need the dos or command line version of unzip.exe. I had one on my computer but you can find one on google if you need.
in the “Execute the following command after downloading” in the Advanced Settings tab, you need to enter something like this:
\Thumbdrive\PortableApps\unzip.exe -o \Thumbdrive\PortableApps\PROGRAMFOLDER\PROGRAM.zip -d \Thumbdrive\PortableApps\PROGRAMFOLDER\
I have the unzip.exe program in the \Thumbdrive\PortableApps\ folder on my thumbdrive. The -o switch instructs unzip.exe to overwrite files without prompting. Replace PROGRAMFOLDER with the name of the program of course, and PROGRAM.zip with the name of the zipped file. The -d switch instructs unzip.exe to extract the contents of the zipped file to the following directory - which in my case is \Thumbdrive\PortableApps\PROGRAMFOLDER\
You should also use the “Save to file” rather than the “Save in folder” option in the Download Location in Ketarin. This ensures the file name always matches what you specified unzip.exe to look for.
This same technique works for .RAR or .7z, or any other compressed file. You just need to locate the command line version of the unRAR.exe or un7z.exe program and adjust the switches.
One major roadblock to having my fully automated updated thumbdrive is programs that come with a self extracting installer. for example, HiJackThis.exe when run gives you a pop up box to tell it where you want to install it. Anyone know how to extract the files from these, or at least command line tell it where to install?
-Shannon
