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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: LT Spice updates
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:56:26 -0400
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"bitrex" <user@example.net> wrote in message news:66689c4b$0$3102244$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com...
> On 6/11/2024 2:09 PM, john larkin wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:35:21 -0400, "Edward Rawde"
>> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> "john larkin" <jl@650pot.com> wrote in message news:c11h6j1rgdemjqmp73m93ir3qr4d07hlj3@4ax.com...
>>>> LT Spice used to have a tool called Sync Release. It's now called
>>>> Update Components. That seems to work.
>>>>
>>>> But the separate Help/Check for updates crashes when I try to update
>>>> from 17.1.14. I'm running Win 11 on a pretty new PC.
>>>
>>> 17.1.14? The version I have reports 24.0.12
>>
>> Yes, I'm trying to run the upgrade.
>>
>>>
>>> Maybe uninstall it and install from the latest download.
>>
>> Grumble.
>>
>> Does it work OK? I've seen reports of problems running older schematic
>> files in version 24.
>>
>
>
> "The people's thoughts are constrained by their tools of production" seems like a vaguely appropriate Marxian aphorism.
>
> I don't know if Marx ever said something like "Updaters are a tool of last resort" IME the ratio of "Oh the update fixed 
> something" to "Oh it broke something that worked fine before" is about 1 to 3

It's been a long time since the average software update switched from actually fixing anything to forcing the latest version into 
use.