Auto-update
Temika
I find that the Dropbox updater will run randomly whilst I'm using the PC and this causes so much activity with the hard drive that the system is almost unusable until it completes. Since this takes several minutes it is such an inconvenience I have to disable the Dropbox application except when I want to explicitly synchronise files.
Is there a way to disable auto-update on the Dropbox Windows application or set it to run at a particular time? This "run whenever it feels like" is very backwards and not something I see in any other application, which either ask to update or allow defined times to do so.
Whenever my Dropbox is crashing and I go to the Task Manager - it is always because it's trying to update at the same time. The only way to fix is to uninstall Dropbox and reinstall the latest version - which is not an autoupdate anyway!!! Please let me know how to delete the autoupdate part from the Dropbox program folders, so that my ap. stops crashing.
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According to my currently syncing/crashing Dropbox, I have 3,069,000 files currently trying to sync. This is because every time I have to uninstall and reinstall Dropbox (which is pretty much Dropbox's recommended solution for everything), I have to try and remember exactly what subfolders i have synced out of a massive online data collection. I never get it exactly right, and I usually start again with the bare minimum smart-synced to the computer, but it will have to catalogue the whole thing again to figure out what I want on the desktop and what I don't.
I have had Dropbox paused for the last 17 hrs approximately, because another forum had an issue marked a 'solved' if you pause Dropbox while it's doing a massive 'indexing' operation. That trick seemed to work for me on my home computer the other day, but has not worked in this instance.
Sadly 3M files IS me being VERY selective about what I keep Smart-synced. I am attempting to reduce it even further, but the Dropbox ap. can't get far enough through re-indexing and figuring itself out after re-installing to even get there. It's just repeatedly crashing.
I've once again tried the pause sync trick to give it a bit of time to get the indexing done, but no improvement. As soon as I unpause it crashes the ap. and requires me to press the "Restart Dropbox" button.
I'm sorry if this question is very simple/straight forward.
How to disable auto update in Joplin (desktop) ?
I found geo-location in options/settings -> note.
But I don't see auto-update anywhere in the settings.
In settings under which catergory is it placed ?
Out of interest I just downloaded a few AppImages for versions back to 2.0.11 and ran them on Kubuntu 21.10. None actually notified me of an available update so I guess the option is not needed as it does not check.
It's just a guess but the auto-update feature does not actually auto-update; it shows a notification with a download link. This is not that useful for Linux which uses a separate download & update script.
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In the privacy policy, it is mentioned that auto-update is enabled by default.
It also says that 'It can disabled', but I cannot do the same.
It's not mentioned that 'auto-update cannot be disabled in Linux. I want to disable it, but there is no option to do so
There are about 614,972 downloads on linux so far (Source)
I'm sure that many of them will try to disable auto-update (which connects to GitHub) even the privacy policy states that it can be disabled. I want to know where I can disable it.
@ Team, Hello team!, I'm new to this forum, so not sure who I should tag for this.
Anyway, I'm not telling that somethings wrong, I want to know how to disable 'auto update' on Joplin (please refer to above messages also). And also let me know, If I misunderstood something here.
(Btw, this forum says that "Sorry, new users can't mention other users". Does this make any sense ? I'm new to this forum, but I just want to tag the required team members. But this forum is not allowing me to do so )
Also, if I'm not mistaken, even in Windows having the Automatically update the application option ticked doesn't actually automatically update the application. It should really say something like "Automatically check for updates" if I'm not mistaken. You always have to choose to update, at least in Windows. Are you actually having the updates happen without your approval in Linux?
You don't need to tag anybody for something like this, if it is important then one of the team will very likely see it and reply. The community is very knowledgeable, if the issue is a genuine problem then it will be naturally brought to the attention of the team.
Essentially, the problem is that Linux desktops have many competing package formats, and Joplin only uses one (AppImage). There are a few packages created by third parties, so they have control over things like auto update.
If you share how you installed the Joplin app, then someone on the forum might be able to help you. But in general the third party packages are not supported by the Joplin team, and you'll need to talk to the packager to get help.
I'm skipping the 2.5.12 release of the snap (it's currently on 2.5.10), so it's certainly not that. If it was though, the answer to stop auto updates would be to download the snap directly (snap download joplin-desktop) and install it with the --dangerous flag, (sudo snap install joplin-desktop_local_file.snap --dangerous), avoiding importing the .ack file that has signature verification that ties it to the Snap Store. Such a snap wouldn't ever automatically update and they'd need to keep downloading and installing like this on their own terms.
I'm also very much under the impression that the AppImage just lacks the capability to do automatic update checking at all. There's no UI for turning it off because there's no functionality to do it to begin with, see #4102 and #4096 in v1.4.12
Will Joplin connect to GitHub 'periodically' to 'check for updates'. It doesn't need to auto-update. Will it do that just to let users know... like, "There is a new version, download the new app image".
If yes, how to disable that ?
Appimages cannot be updated, but it can check for updates by connecting to GitHub 'periodically' to notify the user to say something like .. 'there is a new version, download the latest app image now'
In the privacy policy, it is mentioned that auto-update is enabled by default.
It also says that 'It can disabled', but I cannot do the same.
It's not mentioned that 'auto-update cannot be disabled in Linux. I want to disable it, but there is no option to do so
How do I turn off Auto Updates (using current version 10.59.5)? Several Google searches list answers that say "go to Tools - Options - ...). In the current version there is no "Options" menu under tools (or under settings). Surely there must be a way that I'm missing.
When I'm in the middle of a project, I just need Evernote to work, not go loading some update (like more emoji's) that I couldn't care less about. Feel free to tell me a update is available - but let me decide when it's convenient for me, to install the patch.
BZZZZZZZZZZZZT @Agsteele! On Windows (10) the updates load in the foreground, in an uninterruptible dialog. It's a royal pain to have to wait for an update when I am opening Evernote to actually DO something. Survey your customers and find out haw many others also find this annoying.
Therefore, I use it only when I want to actually DO something with it. That might be once a day, or once a week. Lately, there are times when I start Evernote and it immediately goes into update mode .... NOT in the background, NOT out of sight, but in a modal dialog that can't be dismissed until the update completes.
I don't remember a modal (which proves nothing), but I do know that Evernote automatically update when it's been turned off and back on, and shuts itself down and restarts during an update, which does take time. A minute or two at most for me, but if I had a burning thought it'd be annoying.
Yep. I hate that *****. It happens literally more often than not for me. I just need to make a quick note of something so I open Evernote but wait! Have to close the program and do another update first. I'm paying $130 a year for this?
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