I am trying to use application sync to patch a package but found it is quite impossible. The package is very large (1.3g), could there be a size problem?
I put the patch package (data container exe) on a http server and specify the url as AppSyncURL in the package.ini. I've also set the following parameter:
AppSyncUpdateFrequency=0
AppSyncExpirePeriod=0 (I've also tried to set it as never but it does not make any differerence)
The behavior is such: when the package is being launched, it stays very slowly in the task manager. The user would not even be able to tell that it is being launched. Sometimes Thinstall displays "1% complete" quickly. After about 5 to 10 minutes the program is eventually launched (not the patch). Now if you try again to launch the package, it will display something like "2% complete".
I've tried it many times since yesterday, and the patching is far away from being completed. I noticed there's a asl and ase file created by the mechanism, and the size of ase file increases everytime the package is being launched. However, the size of the file is still only 10% of the original data container.
Am I missing something? Or is there a limit of this feature? Please advise. Thank you.