Now I know John T is going to give me a raft because he doesn't like people to install portable on the hard drive. Still, I need to know why FFX would do this in hopes it will help me diagnose the real problem.
One of the church computers (Win XP) woke up this morning and had lost all of its personalizations. Basically it is showing a short term memory to long term memory transfer problem. I can make a personalization (like wallpaper) but it won't survive a boot. The computer is still on the network and the internet but I can't make any shortcuts or map any drives that will survive reboot. Some of them seem to disappear in about 30 seconds.
So, anyhow, when I try to start Portable FFX3.0, it reports that it is on read only media and needs to copy itself to the hard drive. When I don't give permission, it expresses regret and shuts down. If I drill down to the APP folder and run firefox.exe, it runs fine.
Obviously the FireFoxPortable launcher is testing something and finding it ungood. I have inspected the FireFoxPortable folders and files and they are not marked RO, nor does there appear to be any other issue there.
Can anyone give me a clue as to what is going on? And a cure, if you have one.
-----Paul-----
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Before even looking at any software at all (including FFP), you HAVE to fix your PC issues. It could be a virus or malware. Or it could be a hardware issue (drive failing most likely). On startup, FFP tries to write a test file to the profile to ensure it is writeable. If it fails, it says it is read only. It's failing on your PC for one of the reasons I mentioned above. Until you fix that, you can't use FFP.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Thank'ee. That's what I needed to know. I presume you mean to the profile folder within the Data folder?
----Paul-----