Can the installer create a 'cancel all transfers' dialogue?

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

As I was installing OpenShell 4.4.202, a small window pop up warning me that proceeding would 'cancel all transfers'. The window seemed not to say what program it belonged too. Nor was 'transfers' (file operations?) explained. There was a button or two in the dialogue. But before I could click one of the buttons - or even read them properly - the window disappeared.

I note also that the installer was unable to close the 'Everything' program or even Windows Explorer.

EDIT: thank you for the new release.

[ge0rdi]

I note also that the installer was unable to close the 'Everything' program or even Windows Explorer.

That's because some Open-Shell binaries were still loaded in Explorer. So Explorer had to be stopped during installation.

And this was imo the reason you saw some message about transfers displayed by Explorer.
Not sure what it was about, maybe there were some pending operations in Explorer and as it was to be terminated it asked whether it is ok to do so.

In any case, the need for Explorer restart is pretty normal when updating Open-Shell.

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

Thank you for the reply. The points I am trying to press are as follows.

1. Whichever program displays the 'transfers' stuff does a bad job of it and ought to do a better job of it.

2. The Open-Shjll installer tries and fails - in my experience, always fails - to close various programs. That failure is _not idea_l.

[ge0rdi]

Whichever program displays the 'transfers' stuff does a bad job of it and ought to do a better job of it.

I'm not sure if we can do anything about it as such message doesn't come from Open-Shell.

The Open-Shjll installer tries and fails - in my experience, always fails - to close various programs. That failure is _not idea_l.

Installer (MSI actually) is trying to terminate programs that have Open-Shell binaries loaded (that is typically Explorer).
I don't think it always fails (actually it rarely fails for me).

What did happen in your case?
Did installer report some error?
It should request reboot in such case as those locked files can be moved during boot.

[LinuxOnTheDesktop]

'I'm not sure if we can do anything about it as such message doesn't come from Open-Shell.'

Any idea whether it comes from Explorer? Or perhaps from Everything? If the latter, I can send a bug report to the creator of that program.

'What did happen in your case?'

In my most recent installation of OpenShell, as in at least some previous installations of OpenShell, the installer: told me that some programs had to be closed (on pain of a reboot); asked me whether I wanted the installer to close them; failed to close them (when I assented) and told me that it had failed and, yes, requested a reboot. I did not reboot. Rather I used the Windows task manager to close the programs - which it did without prompting for any authorisation. Then the installation succeeded and no reboot was needed.

[ge0rdi]

Any idea whether it comes from Explorer? Or perhaps from Everything? If the latter, I can send a bug report to the creator of that program.

I have no clue. Never seen such dialog, not am I familiar with Everything.
If that happens again, you can use some tool like Spy++ or SystemInformer to try to identify what process given window belongs to.

failed to close them (when I assented) and told me that it had failed and, yes, requested a reboot

It is rather weird that installer was unable to terminate those processes (maybe they didn't react or something was blocking them?).
Not sure if we can do anything about this (it is what MSI does).
The recommendation is to simply reboot the machine.