As my old boss used to say, "you've hardly finished doing something right, than it works"... *sigh*.
I managed to update my dedicated server installation, but not DCS_openbeta, so of course OB wasn't WAD
All cleared up now. Thanks for the replies! 🤙
Thanks for the reply!
The instructions I use for disabling BD are from BD's site itself. I'm not saying your instructions are wrong, but...
Then again, I set an exception for "..\Eagle Dynamics", as has been suggested a couple of times, and it made no difference. I would have restarted my system sooner to try that, but I had started a BD full system scan in the mean time and that... took a while.
Long story short, once the system scan was completed, I restarted the system (BD was not deactivated in any way, but "Eagle Dynamics" folder was listed as an exception from before the restart, I deleted "..\_downloads" manually and ran the latest DCS_Update.exe I had downloaded from DCS home as administrator, and before I could blink, the update completed successfully!
I'll have to beat up on BD later. Right now, Sinai!!..... is... downloading... 2 hours... so slow (my ISP)... sigh
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