Running multiple profiles of PortableApp

Submitted by bendre on July 28, 2008 - 11:08am

Hi,

Currently i use multiple profiles of Portable Firefox and Pidgin by compiling the nsi file from Source Folder.

1. Open .nsi located in Source folder
2. Change section to !define NAME "FirefoxPortable2". original is !define NAME "FirefoxPortable"
3. Then search and replace \Data to \Data2 (this changes location of profile to Data2 folder.
4. Compile the nsi to exe file using NSIS.
5. Now I have two portable exe launchers FirefoxPortable.exe which is original pointing to \Data folder and 2nd one FirefoxPortable2.exe which now saves all settings to \Data2 folder.
6. INI file to have settings AllowMultipleInstances=true if both launcher need to be used at same time.

Not sure if there is any other better way to store multiple profile without actually installing two copies of apps.

With Regards,
Nikhil Bendre


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Well,

if you're willing to do some gui programming, you could click a button to let it change the settings directory...

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