hey Giselle, I did a bit of testing by
- attempting to install the 1.7b update over the 1.7b installation
- installing 1.7 over 1.7b (I do understand that not properly uninstalling 1.7b first will probably hose 1.7)
- attempting to install the 1.7b update over the "new" 1.7.
step 1 said 1.7b was already installed and that the installer would do nothing
step 2 completed successfully
step 3 could not find the SexSim installation.
I recorded a 200 MB Process Monitor logfile of the installation, uninstallation, and reinstallation process, and looking through it, the installer completely ignores the G:\ drive while doing the "manual" search. I believe this is because it is listed as removable, not because it is encrypted. My reasoning for this is because the updater also does not attempt to read from my E:\ optical drive, or from my I:\ SD card.
looking through an earlier part of the log file, I find this
"4:16:23.6200160 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegCloseKey","HKLM","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6200487 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKCU","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:23.6201643 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:23.6201810 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegSetInfoKey","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","KeySetInformationClass: KeySetHandleTagsInformation, Length: 0"
"4:16:23.6201896 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6201962 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202028 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202082 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202151 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202211 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryValue","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim\Path","SUCCESS","Type: REG_SZ, Length: 22, Data: G:\Sex Sim"
"4:16:23.6202289 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegCloseKey","HKCU\Software\Ripened Peach Entertainment\Sex Sim","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6202360 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegCloseKey","HKCU","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6203123 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/7/2013 9:44:07 AM, LastAccessTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, LastWriteTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, AllocationSize: 4,096, EndOfFile: 4,096, FileAttributes: D"
"4:16:23.6203522 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/7/2013 9:44:07 AM, LastAccessTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, LastWriteTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, AllocationSize: 4,096, EndOfFile: 4,096, FileAttributes: D"
"4:16:23.6203852 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/7/2013 9:44:07 AM, LastAccessTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, LastWriteTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:15:57 PM, AllocationSize: 4,096, EndOfFile: 4,096, FileAttributes: D"
"4:16:23.6204279 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:06 PM, LastAccessTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, LastWriteTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:16:09 PM, AllocationSize: 212,123,648, EndOfFile: 212,121,388, FileAttributes: A"
"4:16:23.6204518 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"
"4:16:23.6204701 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryNameInformationFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Name: \"
"4:16:23.6204833 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryAttributeInformationVolume","G:\","SUCCESS","FileSystemAttributes: Case Preserved, Case Sensitive, Unicode, ACLs, Compression, Named Streams, EFS, Object IDs, Reparse Points, Sparse Files, Quotas, Transactions, 0x3c00000, MaximumComponentNameLength: 255, FileSystemName: NTFS"
"4:16:23.6204939 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:23.6205364 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"
"4:16:23.6205550 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 0, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6205958 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 4,096, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6206236 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 8,192, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6206526 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 12,288, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:23.6206818 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 16,384, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
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"4:16:25.1852605 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 212,119,552, Length: 1,836, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1852817 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","END OF FILE","Offset: 212,121,388, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1853041 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:25.1854050 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryOpen","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","CreationTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:06 PM, LastAccessTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, LastWriteTime: 10/16/2013 10:24:13 PM, ChangeTime: 11/3/2013 4:16:09 PM, AllocationSize: 212,123,648, EndOfFile: 212,121,388, FileAttributes: A"
"4:16:25.1854363 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Synchronize, Disposition: Open, Options: Directory, Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Attributes: n/a, ShareMode: None, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"
"4:16:25.1854601 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryNameInformationFile","G:\","SUCCESS","Name: \"
"4:16:25.1854722 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","QueryAttributeInformationVolume","G:\","SUCCESS","FileSystemAttributes: Case Preserved, Case Sensitive, Unicode, ACLs, Compression, Named Streams, EFS, Object IDs, Reparse Points, Sparse Files, Quotas, Transactions, 0x3c00000, MaximumComponentNameLength: 255, FileSystemName: NTFS"
"4:16:25.1854819 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:25.1855315 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CreateFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Generic Read, Disposition: Open, Options: Synchronous IO Non-Alert, Non-Directory File, Attributes: N, ShareMode: Read, AllocationSize: n/a, OpenResult: Opened"
"4:16:25.1855522 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 0, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1855858 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 4,096, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1856127 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 8,192, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1856394 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 12,288, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:25.1856661 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 16,384, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
[......snip about 51781 lines]
"4:16:26.6858287 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 212,115,456, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:26.6858548 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS","Offset: 212,119,552, Length: 1,836, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:26.6858729 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","ReadFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","END OF FILE","Offset: 212,121,388, Length: 4,096, Priority: Normal"
"4:16:26.6858918 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","CloseFile","G:\Sex Sim\sexsim_Data\sharedassets0.assets","SUCCESS",""
"4:16:26.6874305 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Desired Access: Maximum Allowed, Granted Access: All Access"
"4:16:26.6874541 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6874684 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:26.6876661 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6876873 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:26.6879383 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6879521 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
"4:16:26.6896680 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegQueryKey","HKLM","SUCCESS","Query: HandleTags, HandleTags: 0x0"
"4:16:26.6897056 PM","vpatch.exe","1236","RegOpenKey","HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\CTF\KnownClasses","NAME NOT FOUND","Desired Access: Read"
at which time the updater goes into its manual search mode
if there is anything else that could be looked at, (or if the entire log is desired) let me know and I'll do my best.
I was able to .7z the full log down to about 12 MB, but think I would need to upload to an external file hosting service