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How to change folder locations?jlgarnier - March 26, 2009 - 5:05am
Hi, I'd like to change the Music, Images, etc. folder locations and have PortableApps menu reflect these changes. How should I proceed? I didn't find any clue in the fora, so thanks in advance for any help, Jean-Luc ( categories: )
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First, welcome to the
First, welcome to the portableapps forums!!
Changing the folder locations is not possible yet, but it is planned for a future release.
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and welcome here Jean-Luc!!!
Unfortunately you cant change the folder locations of the Menu. They are hardcoded into the Platform.
I dont know if there are any plans to make them adjustable in the future.
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Or you could …
… change the whole menu: geek.menu is based on an older version of portableapps.com menu, it is not supported, and it may contain bugs. But you can change folder locations …
How to change folder locations?
Thanks to all, especially for your warm welcome!
I'll wait the next release, hoping it will allow folder locations modification...
Jean-Luc
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I really want this too. I don't think having "Music", "Pictures" and "Videos" under "Documents" makes any sense because they aren't documents. It was a silly standard introduced by Windows, and they've even removed it in Windows Vista.
Also, I like to keep all my documents synchronised between my USB drive and my computer, but not my music, pictures or videos (because they wouldn't fit) and this would be made much easier by having an isolated documents folder. I'm sure I can't be the only one.
So I would really appreciate having a setting in PortableApps.com\Data\PortableAppsMenu.ini like:
That'd be awesome.
Robin.
Other reasons
There are other reasons to want this as well, for instance if you were to install this onto a storage device such as an SD card that you also use for pictures (like I have, actually it's my phone's microSD), where the camera puts pictures into its own folder, and it would be nice to point to that folder from the platform. It could be utilized as an environment variable or some other way like that so that all of the apps would use the same folders (if for some reason an app wanted to access one of those folders, although I can't think of one off the top of my head, so that might just be nonsense...)
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I think that music, pictures,
I think that music, pictures, and videos make sense organizationally. I personally would rather have them grouped under Documents, because at least on my flash drive, my root is cluttered enough without another 3 folders.
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I agree with
I agree with OliverK.
Technically Pictures, Videos, and Music are all Documents
And if you had drives with folders packed up... yeah...
Anyway... if you really want the menu to change the path, change the source code and recompile, which should only be attempted for very advanced users... (I CAN'T BELIEVE I'M TELLING YOU THIS!!!) Yeah... so don't try it unless you 100% know what you're doing and know how to change the PortableApps.com Platform's code.
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Can I also rename the folder and the portableapps menu name?
According to my habit, I never ever use "My Music" or "My Video" folder to save my files. But I would be appreciate if someone can help me to rename it (not only just for the folder, but also the menu in portable apps) into "My Downloads" and "My e-Books".
Can I do that?
Isn't necessary to change names or move folder
I sinchronize between Vista -- USB -- XP, and does not have problems at all.
First: C:/Users/Public --> [%root%]:/Documents
This way, you create a folder structure Vista-style, but retains the PA structure too, without complications. Add to your sinchronizing software to not sinchronize the music, photos and videos folders and you are done.
Isn't necessary, doesn't mean I don't want to.
The whole point of this discussion is to give us options. I think PAM should allow us to manage our own folder items. So instead of seeing "Documents, Music, Pictures, and Videos" we should be able to choose which folders get displayed. The option should also be available to set the icon as desired. This kind of coding is very easy with an .ini file. I personally don't have music and videos on my USB thumb drive, so why should I have to look at the folder icon all the time? Why shouldn't I be able to change that to "C++ Projects" or "PDF's" or "JScripts" or anything I want?!?!?!
Hello All, Sorry if this has
Hello All,
Sorry if this has been answered more recently in a different topic.
Did this feature get added to PA?
I have looked at all the available options and dont see the possibility to change the folder locations/names?
Many Thanks
Purpledelta
Not yet
It's already in our TODO list.
Did you set the working directory?
Okies many thanks.
Okies many thanks.