I'm experiencing the following, rather obscure behaviour and was wondering whether anyone out there could lend a kindly hand. This is the same for other progs but for explanation's sake I shall refer to my portable version of opera. The following is what happens in a series of scenarios:
1) Without using the portableapps menu I run opera from it's own folder off the usb drive (ie. "F:\Opera\"). I have my own mail/profile/bookmark settings stored in their respective subfolders (e.g. "F:\Opera\profile\) etc... and all works well.
OK SOO FAR, BUT READ ON.....
2) I drop the opera folder in the portableapps folder (ie "F:\PortableApps\Opera")
(i) Running the program from this folder directly, without use of portable apps menu, all my bookmarks, mail settings etc. are present as expected, no probs.
(ii) However, starting opera from the portableapps menu, none of these settings are present, my bookmarks etc.. have gone....odd...
Further new folders are created in the usb root directory (i.e. F:\default, F:\profile, F:\mail)...not ideal and rather messy having all these settings in the root folder, I delete these extra folders and start afresh.
(iii) From the portableapps menu I click 'Options->Install a New App' and select opera. Yippppeee, all my original bookmarks and mail settings are used and no random folders are created in the root directory.
(iv) HOWEVER, feeling rather chuffed at 'solving' my problem, I go ahead and setup another program with portableapps menu. It doesn't matter what program this is, but for an example I could setup Killbox, placing it in the folder: "F:\PortableApps\KillBox\", clicking 'Options->Install a New App'.
All seems ok, but when I now run opera from the portableapps menu, unless I redo the process of 'Options->Install a New App' and select opera again, I'm back to a slightly modified version of my original problem, with no bookmarks/mail settings and this time new folders being created in the Killbox directory!!!! (i.e. F:\Killbox\default, F:\Killbox\profile, F:\Killbox\mail).
Please someone, what's going on, it's a bit annoying to have to redo the 'Options->Install a New App' for opera everytime I set up a new app!
Thank you in advance for any advice.
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Ryan (or someone else), could this problem occur because the app (here: opera) isnt run in his root (/PortableApps/Opera) dir?
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I'm using the latest version that's on here atm.
I've definitely made sure that the program is in that directory (otherwise it won't run at all).
I've got the same happening with all programs, so not a problem with opera itself per se, all of them want to dump their settings in the usb root directory (f:\*) rather than save in the program folders themselves.
you using USBOpera, as there standard version isn't portable (I think)?
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Steve Lamerton
Nope, I used to but not too keen on how it runs. I just followed instructions from the following site:
http://www.chooseopera.com/CDProject/portable.html
All has worked fine to date, it's just with the portable apps menu that I experience problems.
Further it's definitely not an opera restricted problem, I get the same peculiar dumping of settings/folders in the root (f:\*) folder (...or in the folder of the most recently set up program with the menu --as I've laid out with 'Killbox' in my initial post).
It's almost as if this PA menu dooda is fooling whichever program is running into thinking it is running from the root directory, rather than it's program folder.
It's a working directory issue. Grab the 1.0.2 Beta 2 release (beta 3 has the same issue). I'll post a new beta soon that fixes it.
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Jolly good, I'll give it a whirl in the morn.
Thanks for the reply!
Cracking program, keep up the good work.
Thanks again for the reply, sure enough switching to beta2 did the trick