I use AVG (free) as a "second opinion" back-up scanner for my handful
of computers. With AVG6 (Free) I was able to download an update to one
machine and then copy the contents of the UPDATES folder to a network
share where AVG on the other computers could grab it (since I only
have a dial-up connection, this saved me significant bandwidth).

Unfortunately, with the release of the new v.7 version of AVG free,
the "Updates" folder has disappeared and it is not immediately evident
which files in the main program directory are the downloaded updates.
Thus, my previous method of distributing the updates to multiple
machines no longer works. The "update from folder" option remains in
the AVG "Control Center" so obviously it's still possible, but how?
I'd rather not have to make the AVG program directory into another
open share, if possible.

I e-mailed Grisoft but they've declined to reply, so I figured I'd ask
here...

"Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I use AVG (free) as a "second opinion" back-up scanner for my handful
> of computers. With AVG6 (Free) I was able to download an update to one
> machine and then copy the contents of the UPDATES folder to a network
> share where AVG on the other computers could grab it (since I only
> have a dial-up connection, this saved me significant bandwidth).
>
> Unfortunately, with the release of the new v.7 version of AVG free,
> the "Updates" folder has disappeared and it is not immediately evident
> which files in the main program directory are the downloaded updates.
> Thus, my previous method of distributing the updates to multiple
> machines no longer works. The "update from folder" option remains in
> the AVG "Control Center" so obviously it's still possible, but how?
> I'd rather not have to make the AVG program directory into another
> open share, if possible.
>
> I e-mailed Grisoft but they've declined to reply, so I figured I'd ask
> here...
>
>
Mine is in

C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\update

note "update" NOT "updates"

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:27:08 GMT, "P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:


>"Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I use AVG (free) as a "second opinion" back-up scanner for my handful
>> of computers. With AVG6 (Free) I was able to download an update to one
>> machine and then copy the contents of the UPDATES folder to a network
>> share where AVG on the other computers could grab it (since I only
>> have a dial-up connection, this saved me significant bandwidth).

>> Unfortunately, with the release of the new v.7 version of AVG free,
>> the "Updates" folder has disappeared and it is not immediately evident
>> which files in the main program directory are the downloaded updates.
>> Thus, my previous method of distributing the updates to multiple
>> machines no longer works. The "update from folder" option remains in
>> the AVG "Control Center" so obviously it's still possible, but how?
>> I'd rather not have to make the AVG program directory into another
>> open share, if possible.

>> I e-mailed Grisoft but they've declined to reply, so I figured I'd ask
>> here...

>Mine is in
> C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\update
>note "update" NOT "updates"

Very odd; I have no such folder. There is a "Grisoft" directory in
Program Files, but it is empty. There are no sub-directories at all in
the AVG program-directory. This is true on all the computers I
installed AVG v7 on.

AVG 6 *did* have an UPDATE (not UPDATES, sorry) folder... did you
perhaps uninstall AVG6 and then install AVG7 to the same directory?

"Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:27:08 GMT, "P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> >"Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I use AVG (free) as a "second opinion" back-up scanner for my handful
> >> of computers. With AVG6 (Free) I was able to download an update to one
> >> machine and then copy the contents of the UPDATES folder to a network
> >> share where AVG on the other computers could grab it (since I only
> >> have a dial-up connection, this saved me significant bandwidth).
>
> >> Unfortunately, with the release of the new v.7 version of AVG free,
> >> the "Updates" folder has disappeared and it is not immediately evident
> >> which files in the main program directory are the downloaded updates.
> >> Thus, my previous method of distributing the updates to multiple
> >> machines no longer works. The "update from folder" option remains in
> >> the AVG "Control Center" so obviously it's still possible, but how?
> >> I'd rather not have to make the AVG program directory into another
> >> open share, if possible.
>
> >> I e-mailed Grisoft but they've declined to reply, so I figured I'd ask
> >> here...
>
> >Mine is in
> > C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\update
> >note "update" NOT "updates"
>
> Very odd; I have no such folder. There is a "Grisoft" directory in
> Program Files, but it is empty. There are no sub-directories at all in
> the AVG program-directory. This is true on all the computers I
> installed AVG v7 on.
>
> AVG 6 *did* have an UPDATE (not UPDATES, sorry) folder... did you
> perhaps uninstall AVG6 and then install AVG7 to the same directory?
>
>

No, I used the auto install feature, and it "emptied" the old AVG6
subdirectory and created the new AVG FREE subdirectory.

IIRC, I manually added the new Update directory to AVG Free which was
present in the old AVG6, based on my reading of something on the AVG site
re. manual updating.

"Update" now contains only "u7avi3977t.bin" which is a manual update file -
not necessarily the latest, as the auto update now seems to work OK.

"Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:27:08 GMT, "P" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
> >"Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> >news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> I use AVG (free) as a "second opinion" back-up scanner for my handful
> >> of computers. With AVG6 (Free) I was able to download an update to one
> >> machine and then copy the contents of the UPDATES folder to a network
> >> share where AVG on the other computers could grab it (since I only
> >> have a dial-up connection, this saved me significant bandwidth).
>
> >> Unfortunately, with the release of the new v.7 version of AVG free,
> >> the "Updates" folder has disappeared and it is not immediately evident
> >> which files in the main program directory are the downloaded updates.
> >> Thus, my previous method of distributing the updates to multiple
> >> machines no longer works. The "update from folder" option remains in
> >> the AVG "Control Center" so obviously it's still possible, but how?
> >> I'd rather not have to make the AVG program directory into another
> >> open share, if possible.
>
> >> I e-mailed Grisoft but they've declined to reply, so I figured I'd ask
> >> here...
>
> >Mine is in
> > C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\update
> >note "update" NOT "updates"
>
> Very odd; I have no such folder. There is a "Grisoft" directory in
> Program Files, but it is empty. There are no sub-directories at all in
> the AVG program-directory. This is true on all the computers I
> installed AVG v7 on.
>
> AVG 6 *did* have an UPDATE (not UPDATES, sorry) folder... did you
> perhaps uninstall AVG6 and then install AVG7 to the same directory?
>
>

Here's the sequence for manual updates

(1) Create the folder update, as in "C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG
Free\update"

(2) Go to:
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/.../lng/us/tpl/v5

(3) Download the latest update file ( it's now u7avi398lj.bin ) into that
directory

(4) Run AVG - it will automatically load the new file ( if it's newer than
what you now have )


As I said, the auto update feature / servers now seem to be up to speed, but
save this for future reference.

Okay, found my solution... turns out AVG7 saves its updates in the

c:\documents and settings\all users\application
data\Grisoft\AVG7Data\avg7upd

directory. Silly me, I checked the application data folder for my own
username but didn't bother to check AllUsers. Fortunately, a
file-search for the updated file (u7avi398u392lj.bin) set me straight.

Still wish it had kept the updates in the AVG program folder; I'm not
a fan of having files scattered all about my hard-drive. But oh well.

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:27:08 GMT, P wrote:

> "Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I use AVG (free) as a "second opinion" back-up scanner for my handful
>> of computers. With AVG6 (Free) I was able to download an update to one
>> machine and then copy the contents of the UPDATES folder to a network
>> share where AVG on the other computers could grab it (since I only
>> have a dial-up connection, this saved me significant bandwidth).
>>
>> Unfortunately, with the release of the new v.7 version of AVG free,
>> the "Updates" folder has disappeared and it is not immediately evident
>> which files in the main program directory are the downloaded updates.
>> Thus, my previous method of distributing the updates to multiple
>> machines no longer works. The "update from folder" option remains in
>> the AVG "Control Center" so obviously it's still possible, but how?
>> I'd rather not have to make the AVG program directory into another
>> open share, if possible.
>>
>> I e-mailed Grisoft but they've declined to reply, so I figured I'd ask
>> here...
>>
>>
> Mine is in
>
> C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\update
>
> note "update" NOT "updates"

I have the same problem between 2 computers.
In version 6 there was a directory as you show, but in my version 7
there is no subdirectory within AVG.
--

Peter Kerekes

Personally I didnt think AVG 7 was free, where did you get it from?

"Peter Kerekes" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:17fpk9ungf08j$.(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:27:08 GMT, P wrote:
>
>> "Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I use AVG (free) as a "second opinion" back-up scanner for my handful
>>> of computers. With AVG6 (Free) I was able to download an update to one
>>> machine and then copy the contents of the UPDATES folder to a network
>>> share where AVG on the other computers could grab it (since I only
>>> have a dial-up connection, this saved me significant bandwidth).
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, with the release of the new v.7 version of AVG free,
>>> the "Updates" folder has disappeared and it is not immediately evident
>>> which files in the main program directory are the downloaded updates.
>>> Thus, my previous method of distributing the updates to multiple
>>> machines no longer works. The "update from folder" option remains in
>>> the AVG "Control Center" so obviously it's still possible, but how?
>>> I'd rather not have to make the AVG program directory into another
>>> open share, if possible.
>>>
>>> I e-mailed Grisoft but they've declined to reply, so I figured I'd ask
>>> here...
>>>
>>>
>> Mine is in
>>
>> C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\update
>>
>> note "update" NOT "updates"
>
> I have the same problem between 2 computers.
> In version 6 there was a directory as you show, but in my version 7
> there is no subdirectory within AVG.
> --
>
> Peter Kerekes

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:00:35 -0000, "Topper"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Personally I didnt think AVG 7 was free, where did you get it from?

It's a recent upgrade; I first heard about it myself from a post in
this newsgroup 10 days ago. Get it from www.grisoft.com

(and in case anyone missed the answer to my original question: AVG7
now stores it update files in

c:\documents and settings\all users\application
data\Grisoft\AVG7Data\avg7upd

(beware word-wrap

"Spalls Hurgenson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:00:35 -0000, "Topper"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> (and in case anyone missed the answer to my original question: AVG7
> now stores it update files in
>
> c:\documents and settings\all users\application
> data\Grisoft\AVG7Data\avg7upd
>
> (beware word-wrap
>
>

Not for those using Win98SE - it's:

C:\Program Files\Grisoft\AVG Free\update