The generic updater by tony sometimes breaks the updated plugin.
 

Sometimes, it will happen.
This means if your plugin updates itself, it may break and require maintenance. I discovered it with my JailBreak plugin, and since then I made the plugin to auto update a seperate plugin which doesn't get updated automatically EVER

This happened to the most important plugin, Left4dhooks

Edit: The broken file ( .smx ) was exactly 100,000 bytes smaller than the proper file.

This is the updater causing the issues: https://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=169095

Re: The generic updater by tony sometimes breaks the updated plugin.
 

Sometimes it apparently mistakes the paths/files: The translation .txt file had the prior size of the .smx file, (and contained binary code), while .smx had the (prior updating) size of the small translation file .

Re: The generic updater by tony sometimes breaks the updated plugin.
 

there is a version that is more up to date, i have been following it for a bit longer: https://github.com/Teamkiller324/Updater

Re: The generic updater by tony sometimes breaks the updated plugin.
 

What's your suggestion to fix this issue?

Re: The generic updater by tony sometimes breaks the updated plugin.
 

Making an extra plugin on top of whatever plugin or package of plugins you have that utilizes Updater but won't update itself ever.