I posted this in another thread yesterday. It might help you :)...
As something along the same lines already exists, I thought I'd post this here. Bear with me, guys ...
A few days ago, my PC went awol and I couldn't get it to boot. This had something to do with Windows Update being ***** during a power glitch. Took me 2 days to finally fix it with more than 50 tries at System Restore and Restore Image. I finally got it to work, obviously and didn't cost me a centimo. Lost a few hairs tho :(
So the Disk Image that finally worked was from an auto update of the Disk images from July, this year. So, I lost quite a bit of info relating to what I had downloaded and installed during the past few months, including some of my favorites in IE11. Anyways, I got all that stuff back up to date and everything was cool. EXCEPT iStripper!
All of the demos were now showing from June/July and earlier. Nothing new. Hmmm. Why was that I asked myself? So I tried sync with server and got error reports on the download button. I was synced ok but new downloads wouldn't start. So, I re-installed the latest version again, 12138 and it was still the same no matter how many times I tried the same thing. l know. Crazy huh?
I took a deep breath and decided to wipe out ALL of the VG/iS software from my system EXCEPT the Models folder on my external drive. All gone :(
Now for the fun part and this never worked so well before, I swear...
I re-installed version 12138 and had to login as an existing member with my User/Password... Fine. Did that.
I had NO cards till I checked the advanced settings and RESET my external drive's location for the Model's path. I didn't need to rebuild anything or register again. ALL my cards just re-appeared in glorious colour.
Also, now the carousel is back up to date with no download error messages :)
I'm not trying to teach anybody anything here. I'm just illustrating the path I took to get everything back to normal. Maybe it'll help somebody else :)