Anki Portable 1.2.8 Development Test 2

Anki is a tough nut to crack, but well worth it. There are two ways, how you can deal with the Documents/Anki directory, because moving it is really not desirable. It would take a minute or so on my computer with 10000+ files in the Decks directory. Here is what I do in my portable anki:
1) When exiting the app, I check Documents/Anki for any decks and move them to Anki/Data/Decks. Then I search/replace config.db file and change Documents path to Anki/Data/Decks path (config.db is a standard text file, but you need to adjust delimiter to "\u005c" (sometimes it may be "\u005C"). There is ReplacePathInFile script somewhere on this site, but you need to account for the delimiter.
2) when starting the app I also de search/replace in config.db, but this time I replace old Anki path for the new one (if it had been changed)

That is all there is to it. Another (probably more elegant) way to do it is to use symbolic link/junction for Documents/Anki directory and do copying only if it fails (which should only on some rare configurations). For this I have a script, which I can post here.

Another thing you also should account for (if you want to make it completely portable) is the backup folder, where you should do search and replace on the filenames (both when anki ends and when it starts after changing its location - this time "!" is the delimiter and ":" is left out). Otherwise the folder just grows, because anki always keeps certain number of backups (can be set in settings) and deletes the old ones. But if the path changes, it will create new ones (up to 30 in my case). But this is not absolutely necessary, for Anki to work properly.

Oh, and btw, the new 2.0 Alpha version has another twist - it saves config.db file to an sql database - this can be solved using sqlite command line tool and exporting/importing that file as needed.

Excellent. Thank you for your work!

Anki 2 out and final. It would be so very nice to see a portable version

Yes please!