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Cheers floele Well like Ive said already I'm not programmer but here is what I think solves the problem (I just dont know how to go about doing it): Ketarin can determine the version number of an app as setup in the "web versions" part where you select the version number in the webpage. Asuite for most apps is able to retrieve the version number of an exe file once you've added the path pointing it to. Similarly if you go into the properties of an exe file in windows you get a version number. Since they can do it I'm assuming its possible to write a script to do it or maybe the is a cli command to find it. Once you have the outputs from both of the above one of the following happens: They get compared; if they are the same (ie 1.0.2 and 1.0.2) it returns a 1 (doesn't download). If they are not the same (ie 1.0.2 and 1.0.3) it returns 0 (download new version). I'm probably over simplifying this since I have no idea how in reality you could write a script to do the above.

Can confirm {file} works.

I thought it might be possible by pointing ketarin to the file ( {root}\apps\program.exe ) using a command to extract the file version and comparing that to the file version extracted from its download website. If the two match it doesn't download and cancels the operation for that app, if they dont match it downloads as normal. Obviously it'd probably need to be a script of some sort thats run before it downloads the app but I have no experience in this so dont know if its possible.

I'm trying to use ketarin to manage the updates for my suite of portable apps. I take it for ketarin to know whether to update a certain application it needs the file it downloaded originally? For example if I download a zip file I need to keep it so ketarin doesn't just re-download it when I press update assuming it needs to update cos it aint there. Or is there a way to point it to the extracted file to check that to see if it needs an update?

Square brackets only used to show that the app could be anything. This is what it looks like with an app: 7z x "{file}" -o"..\Apps\Starter" -y I'll have a look cheers. Just need to figure out how to extract paf files or run them.

Thanks josh did what you suggested and changed the command a bit to this where the app folder is the name of the app: 7z x "{file}" -o"..\Apps\[Appfoldername]" -y Any way of deleting the original file after its extracted? I tried adding this at the end but it doesn't work: d {file} EDIT: Worked it out now using this: 7z x "{file}" -o"..\Apps\[Appfoldername]" -y && del "..\Apps\[Appfoldername]\*.zip"

Hi CybTekSol I can see the power of it I just cant harness it. I'm looking through the forum but so far I'm finding no help as I dont understand what I'm reading. I've read man pages for 7zip and obviously I'm doing something wrong the commands work in the cli but ketarin does nothing with these same commands. I've not tried Universal Extractor cos I cant find any info on the command line commands.

Care to enlighten, I cant do anything except download.

Why is it so hard to get this program to do what you want it to do? All I can get this to do is download things I then have to extract them myself if they're archived. I'm also having trouble with the versions of programs. I'm no a programmer or a command line guru so it would seem Keterin is next to useless for me.

Ok new to this trying to understand the random gobaldiegook that you need to get ketarin to unzip stuff. How is it that I can use 7zip to extract overwrite and delete the zip package? For example I download "program.zip" to "..\Apps\program" then what?