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jphweb
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Spotify 0.4.3 portable - dev test 1 - stopped

Sorry this is not avilable due to spotify terms of use.

Thanks

Mark Sikkema
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Hi jphweb,

I had a go on this, only to find out I have to register, which I did not, and I closed it again.

A few things:

1. You should get your forum-topic layout set-up as discriped here
2. I done a regshot, and a fair few things where left behind
3. Your launcher.ini has got the following setting, I do not think that is right

[DirectoriesCleanupForce]
 1=%APPDATA%\..\local\spotify

Probably should be something like (looking at the regshot):

[Activate]
Registry=true

[RegistryKeys]
-=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\spotify

[DirectoriesMove]
settings=%APPDATA%\Spotify\settings

[DirectoriesCleanupForce]
1=%APPDATA%\spotify
2=%LOCALAPPDATA%\spotify

Note: that I did not test this, and I did not run Spotify fully.

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Chris Morgan
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LOCALAPPDATA

It looks to me like he's trying to get to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local - that's LOCALAPPDATA in PAL (refer to the manual).

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Mark Sikkema
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Sorry, one

Sorry, one change:

[DirectoriesForceCleanUp] is not very safe to use, as spotify could locally be installed !
As an alternative you can use:

[DirectoriesMove]
settings=%APPDATA%\Spotify\Settings
Gracenote=%APPDATA%\Spotify\Settings\Gracenote
-=%LOCALAPPDATA%\spotify

the minus, indicates the launcher to backup the local folders, and when exiting to restore them, it just doesn't copy them to the portable Data folder.

Maybe you have to use [DirectoriesCleanupIfEmpty] on %APPDATA%\Spotify, but I think the launcher takes care of it automaticly

You just need to play with it a bit, and use regshot to see any changes made to the system

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Didn't read

I didn't read all of your post and missed that last line of yours.

[DirectoriesMove] should not be used with settings; that's the one directory which is not safe to move. I think I'll put in an alert for 2.1 to avoid a mistake there at all.

The Gracenote value there should not be like that; it's already being done by the line above.

It seems to me unlikely that %LOCALAPPDATA%\Spotify is really not wanted. I think either %APPDATA%\Spotify is meant, or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Spotify for all of them. It may be mixed but that's far less common.

(I still haven't looked at the original source code.)

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jphweb
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OS

May I ask what os you are using?
When I tried this on windows 7 64 bit total uninstaller said there was no change to the registery.

Plus the folder in appdata is storage it is computer dependant and only useful for spotify mobile sync.

But I will edit it to your advice.

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Could it be that you didn't

Could it be that you didn't see any change due to the fact that the classes registry keys where already present?

Anyway, I advise you to do some testing (and playing around) with the suggestions, as I just tried to indicate what and how you could solve the issue(s).

I wrote the above launcher.ini settings in a bit of a hurry and am sure I made at least two mistakes Sad :

[DirectoriesMove]
SpotifySettings=%APPDATA%\Spotify\Settings
Gracenote=%APPDATA%\Spotify\Gracenote
-=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Spotify

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Win?

I'm not a pro with mac but in 99.9% sure that %AppData% is a windows only thing... im not 100% sure... because i don't know enough about mac but i have knowledge that mac (if it had a %AppData% wouldn't use it often...)

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%appdata%\..

This is correct.

%Localappdata% did not work

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