Hi,
i recently changed my main computer (from desktop to laptop). Anyway, as a heavy user of portable apps, i moved all my apps onto the new hard drive, and everything went fine except for AIMP Portable.
When I launched it, it forgot all the settings i used on the previous computer. I kept a copy on my previous computer, so i could recheck, and it is definitely an issue: the programs stores data in the
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\AIMP3
folder (i got all my apps on another drive, in a "Apps" folder at its root).
So this is defintely not a portable application (or is this a bug ?).
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Did you use AIMP itself and associate your files with it? If so, that would launch AIMP directly (not AIMPPortable.exe which makes it portable) meaning you'd just be running a local version of AIMP.
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Pardon my total newbie-ness, i was actually doing that (playing files directly after associating program in windows)
but it's weird, why would file association leave tracks on system ? I associated VLC to video files but its stays portable, unlike AIMP.
thanks for the answer.
It's not the association itself that left traces.
When you run a portable app, the launcher runs first and then runs the "real" executable - which make it portable.
If you enable the file association, the "real" EXE associates the file extension with itself and not with the launcher EXE.
Hence, when you double click a file, the system runs directly the "real" EXE, bypassing the launcher... so it makes it run as a local app...
You should manually associate the files with the launcher EXE and it should work fine.
Hello! Sorry to bring up an old thread but I had this problem a while back and found this thread which helped me solve the problem but now it has happened again so I felt I wanted to comment here. This time Aimp refuses to launch in portable mode despite me starting it with the AIMPPortable.exe file and not by double clicking an mp3 file (I have mp3's associated). It creates a folder in C:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming everytime, and when I delete it Aimp creates it again with next launch.
That is the way it should work. There is only an issue if the folder is still there after you close AIMP (and wait a couple of seconds for the Launcher to do its magic).
Hmm but now when I have deleted the AIMP folder and downloaded a fresh version it doesn't create any folder in roaming, not even temporarily. And the folder never disappeared by itself and all settings were stored in the roaming folder, I tried making changes in settings, then closed AIMP, waited 15-20 seconds for the roaming folder to disappear, which it didn't, so I then removed the folder in roaming and re-opened AIMP and every time all settings were reset. It seems something went bad with the launcher executable.
Which file(s) stores the settings? It would be great to have all settings saved next time this happens.
Did you happen to run AIMP directly (not via the AIMPPortable.exe launcher)? This will happen if you associate files within AIMP.
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