FileBot 4.7 (TV/Movie file renamer, organizer, subtitle downloader)

First of all, please don't take anything here personally. I don't pull punches but I'm not doing it to be nasty, I'm just trying to help you get everything up to spec where something may not be quite correct.

appinfo.ini

• Some of these fields are optional and because you are setting the default (or no) value you can remove the following lines: Donate, Trademarks, InstallType, EULAVersion, ExtractIcon
• Typo in your description - subtititles
• Not a major issue in any way, but you don't need the app name in the description. I'd probably just do "Rename, organize and retrieve subtitles for TV shows and movies".
• You've doubled-up on a [License] header and whole [Version] section between [Dependencies] and [Control]. While (probably) not all that bad, it is better to remove them.
• For development tests the DisplayVersion should be "4.0 Development Test 1"
• Not a problem right now, but if you are hoping for an eventual official release it is better to keep your PackageVersion as something less the actual version of the app.

launcher.ini

• You need to remove the CloseEXE line - if any other programs running Java are open Filebot Portable will fail to run while this line is there.
• In your CommandLineArguments it should be %PAL:AppDir% not %PAL:AppsDir%.
• In your CommandLineArguments you should set -Dapplication.dir="%PAL:DataDir%" -Djava.io.tmpdir="%PAL:DataDir%\temp". This will redirect both the cache and temp folders to the Data folder.
• It may also be worth redirecting the -Duser.home to somewhere more portable like %PAL:DataDir%. I couldn't see any effect from redirecting/not redirecting, but it feels more future-proof if you do redirect it.
• Because you are redirecting the settings to a file in the CommandLineArguments you can remove anything to do with the registry - [RegistryKeys], [RegistryCleanupIfEmpty] and the Registry=true line in [Activate].
• If Filebot doesn't store any paths (I couldn't see any in a default prefs file) you don't need the [FileWrite].Filebot stores paths so you will have to adapt your existing [FileWrite] to handle the paths in %PAL:DataDir%\settings\prefs.properties. Also remember that users may move an app around folders, not just drive letters. To have a look at the way we typically handle full path changes check out most of our recent official apps. I can say for sure that both LAN Messenger and Pencil handle full path changes in the currently accepted way. You may also need to look at one of the environment variable modifiers to help you handle paths properly.

Icons

• appicon.ico also needs to have 8-bit colour versions of each of the icons.
• Delete appicon_48.png - it will never be used. The (optional) other icon format in this folder is appicon_128.png

help.html

• Don't replace the default content of this file. Put the defaultcontent back, go through it adding the app's name, web page, and delete one of the two lines regarding the license of the app.

Miscellaneous

• Don't delete any of the default content from the Other folder
• You should put the dev test splash image into the App/AppInfo/Launcher folder. You can find it in the application template on the development page if you don't already have it.

Otherwise this looks like a fairly useful app that I may start using at home.

Yeah, I saw that today when I tried to use it today. I'll keep an eye out for any updates to jPortable.

jPortable 8 won't be release until at least 2015 or so, at least what that it sound like based on this comment https://portableapps.com/news/2014-08-05--jportable-7-update-67-released...

On a more related note, does this work with PortableAps update check? Or would I have to use this 'section' to get update

I still use this all the time and noticed there was a 4.7 update. Replacing the jar file worked for that. I changed the batch file to also look for Java64 in the common files, but could you update the launcher to look for this location as well? Thanks - it's very useful.

Does it work now without the need for Java?