Version Check

Choosing Online: Version Check checks the version number of the SNV program and all of the datafiles against an online database of the latest version numbers. You must have Internet access to perform a version check.

Version Check will produce a popup window showing any version mismatches and also write those mismatches to a file in the SNV installation directory named VersionCheck.txt.

Here is a sample VersionCheck.txt file showing some version mismatches. The sample report shows that the SNV program is slightly out-of-date (local version is 2.4, latest version is 2.5). A few data files are available but missing in the local database. Three datafiles are older than the most current version available.

Mismatches detected listed as filename:    latest version    local version

Program:    2.5    2.4

66-1hc.coin: Thu Dec 09 02:16:50 GMT-08:00 2004 [missing]
67WR-1jt.coin: Thu Dec 09 02:16:53 GMT-08:00 2004 [missing]
67NR-1hc.coin: Thu Dec 09 02:16:51 GMT-08:00 2004 [missing]
68r67-3.coin: Sun Mar 06 15:22:01 GMT-08:00 2005 Mon Sep 06 13:54:42 GMT-08:00 2004
68r67-1jt.coin: Thu Dec 09 02:16:55 GMT-08:00 2004 [missing]
68r67-106.coin: Sun Mar 06 15:21:28 GMT-08:00 2005 Wed Jan 12 21:45:16 GMT-08:00 2005
68r67-204.coin: Sun Mar 06 15:20:56 GMT-08:00 2005 Wed Jan 12 21:45:52 GMT-08:00 2005
68r68-1jt.coin: Thu Dec 09 02:16:57 GMT-08:00 2004 [missing]

Do be aware that if you are running SNV with datafiles on multiple CDs (a feature that was discontinued after SNV version 3.4), and therefore viewing only a subset of the available data at any one time, then it is normal for a large number of files to show up as [missing]. They are missing because they are on CDs that are not currently accessible. It may be preferable to load your data to the hard drive if you are running from CDs so that all of the SNV's data will be available at once. The procedure for doing so is covered in the Frequently Asked Questions.

Version Check will also give you an indication of what you might expect the next time you try to Download Updates.