Hi!
Just a quick no0b question about what "makes" an app portable...
As EditPad is my texteditor of choice i have noticed that it has a "Save registry space by storing settings in an INI-file" setting.
Would i be able to install EditPad to my USB drive and use the INI-file setting to make it work as expected? It sounds a little to simple...
(BTW, I have no USB drive att eh moment...)
//Static
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Sounds about right to me. I havent tried that program though so I wouldn't know.
Yours
Steve Lamerton
Developer Profile Sync & PortaLog
Install EditPad to your flash drive and tell Editpad to save the settings in the INI file (above) and you should be good to go.
...and it works like a charm! Thanx for all the help!
//Static
//Static
They have released new version for both pro and lite
in June of 2006 (just about 2 months or less)
and the new version allows you to create portable
version of editpad simply
by clicking "Help", "Install on Removable Drive"
all it does is create .exe and .ini file on your portable device. it automatically detects and displays usb drives
so make sure you insert the usb drive then to the steps above.
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This is also my editor of choice, when I don't NEED to produce a Word Doc.
I never go ANYWHERE without it.
It was part of a small bunch of utilities
I used to carry it on a CD with me, in case I needed to install them.
EditPadPro, FinePrint, and Winzip.
It was the 1st thing I put on my thumbdrive.
"...finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." - cervantes- don quixote
Been using it for years....the drawback with the latest version is that is assumes that you only use a usb as a portable drive....and so REFUSES to recognize something like an external USB hard drive. I wrote to the author and explained that I carry an external USB hard drive in some instances.
His response was to ask the drive manufacturer how to have the drive identify itself as something other than an external hard drive.
I love the program and have a registered, paid for copy...but I am put off by the attitide.
I guess I'll simply have to play with regedit to overcome the inconvenience.
Thom
Thom,
I'm using EditPad Lite (not Pro) version 6.1.1 (September 15 build) portably on several external USB HD's (not sticks): Western Digital, Iomega, and SmartDisk Firefly. It works great for me on all those external USB hard drives, as well as on my Lexar USB stick.
Perhaps the problem you're experiencing with external USB HD's relates to one of the additional features of the paid EditPad Pro version that I don't have with the Lite version. You could install a second instance of EditPad Lite portably and see if that works with your external HD -- just don't set any context menu items that would conflict with your Pro version registry entries.
EditPad is one of my favorite portable apps, and I prefer it to UltraEdit (paid version running portably) for most text editing tasks.
Yucca
I think the author wrote the pro version in such a way to prevent doing a portable
install to a USB hard drive.
I've tried 85 ways to Sunday to make it work....and it will not install it to the usb hard drive, but will to a USB stick.
So, now that I'm insulted that I paid money to buy a program that I can't use as I would like to, I'll simply beat him at his own game and get it to work.
It's a good learning experience....I'll now ask before I register any program if I can use it on a USB stick AND an External USB hard drive before I spend the money.
3 days a week I operate at 3 different locations each day...and I'm not suppossed to install software on any orf the machines.
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Thom
>> Western Digital, Iomega, SmartDisk ..
Are any/all of these bus-powered and can you recommend them? I've used 40G, 80G, 100G bus-powered LaCie USB2.0 mobile drives and they are utterly faultless. And a AnyPak (forgotten capacity, but quite low) that repeatedly cut in and out on all of several different host machines. Now even the 100G has run out of space. It's hard to find any portable drives larger than 100G that don't require external power, but LaCie have just announced the 160G "Rugged" model that claims to be, and I hope in practice will turn out to be, reliably bus-powered.
(Why so much space required? 4G ext2 + 4G Cygwin + 8G PortableApps / other portable apps + the rest HD backup = 4 partitions soon gets used up.)
I've got the same problem as Thom when trying to get the LITE version to install to the I/O Magic drive. So if anyone does figure this out in how to install the EPL, I'd greatly appreciate it. As I LOVE the program tremendously!
The author of the program suggested that I contact the drive manufacturer and ask them how I can change the drive to make it look like a USB drive to the system!
Most likely one can play with a batch file to place the registration info in the registry and then remove it when you're done. I started down that path and got sidetracked.
Thom
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Got a very pleasent surprize....Jan Goyvaerts sent out email to the folks that had submitted bug reports and feature requests:
am happy to inform you that we have just released a new version of
EditPad. Some of the changes made in this version were made because of
your feedback. Here is the list, straight out of our bug tracking
system:
(Improve) Help|Install on Removable Drive: Option to force EditPad to
treat any drive as a removable drive.
So, some folks in the business do listen to users, and do make positive changes.
Thom
In the progress of downloading the new version. Just released today too! WOW...thanks for your help! I love EditPad. Another friend of mine turned me onto it a few years ago and I love the program for editing my webpages. Such an useful little program! Thanks for the new info!
Anyone know how to get it into the PA launcher?
Oh, wait ... I think I just had to put the EditPad directory into the PAs directory -- I just can't tell if it's launching EPP from the usb drive or the hard drive.
Mozilla!
Are you using an older version or the latest. If you are using the latest, you install the program from EditPad directly. I think I had to move the directory into the PA directory. Then if I remember right, refresh icons from the PA launcher. Should work for ya like a charm from off the USB drive.
yep, that's what I did ... and it worked (gotta love when that happens)
Mozilla!