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@micklification


I've been there and feeling your pain

First of all after reading a lot on forums you need to be aware that there are two types of instllations: nativ (dealer) and standalone (f.e.. sedoy and spider80) and for partners(but this I will skip). For standalone basically you need to get the license from Sedoy which is fair enaugh as this is somehow limiting selling of what is essntially a "free" download for forum members. For nativ you need to install it and purchase (marketplace) license key to run the software offline. 

In regards to your issue. It's as you described it with hiding DB's mismatch or waiting for Sedoy's new release. Update for standalone is simple wait for Sedoy release, remove ISTA folder on your laptop. Then unpack ISTA to ISTA folder, extract SQLiteDB's to same folder in ISTA and perform the same for PSDZ (BLP and SPD) data. Once finished then apply registry fixes and done, no installer needed.

TIP: read log from the bottom in terms of missing files. Think warnings are just information that something is missing, but witout ones mentioned on the bottom console won't start the process.

Updateing part:

1. Standalone - you should wait for Sedoy releases since ISTA loader release version should match SQLiteDB's and PSDZ files. You can update via ISTA Console - please see my screen (showing exactly what you should not do, but for me I wanted to experiment a bit). But your at risk that diagnostic might not be fully working in some areas. From perspective of programing it all depends on what BMW fixed/updated have been introduced in the loader. I would say that this is affecting programing of some cars/modules - you should read release notes to see what they fixed from release to release and check if it might be affecting your cases.

2. Native - more or less same story as above, but in order to start you need to have ISTA Launcher and ISPI Admin Client and credentails to download and run the software. Treat this with a grain of salt, since second point is what I'm investigating and trying to execute on my own.