When update is downloaded and I press to restart to update i get an error. [inno_updater_vZactg6OCq] [Taskmgr_uuWTUPokBA] I don’t see any Cursor instances run in task manager, when I try to repeat the same error appears. If I cancel installation I won’t be able to launch cursor anymore. And the…

Hi, if anyone encounters the window installer failure, you should be able to fix by going to C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Programs\cursor\ and then deleting the folder with an underscore (folder named _ ). Let me know if that doesn’t work (0.46.8+ versions should do this automatically on update/…

same here. the update is killing the application. I needed to reinstall from the download. and not touch the update again.

Fix is posted in here. If you’re on windows go to user/AppData/Local/Temp and look for vscode-stable folder with 46.x exe file [image] The last update kills Cursor Bug Report Same. I killed the updater process, which killed Cursor entirely. I didn’t uninstall, but r…

exactly, something i did, even tried to update, and that was exactly what i had to do as well

Thanks, Ilya! I will remain @ ver 0.45.15 until they fix the new update. Looks like it is in their pipeline [image] :upside_down_face:

Hey, looks like we still had some code that tried to push you to the broken version - just rolled a fix out now, so you shouldn’t get any more broken updates!

Hey, you should be fine to redownload the installer from cursor.com - that should work without any errors, but let me know if you have any issues

[Capture d'écran 2025-02-26 115824] By installing via the temp folder, it opens cursor in administrator version, is this a problem?

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siegblink February 26, 2025, 10:50am 44

thank you very much, it worked!

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