Hello, I have been following PortableApps.com for a while, and decide to try to portablize a few apps for myself.
The one program that I am trying to portablize writes to a few system folders on install, for example, the Fonts folder. I'm trying to figure out how to handle this, i.e., can I reroute the path in the launcher, or do I have to make it temporarily install the files, and then delete them upon exit. Or maybe there is a third option?
Thanks in advance for your help.
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Before i finded portableapps.com, all the portables i used were configured to extract all their data in the temp directory (as they were 7zip sfx configured files) & some in its original program files folder, & then most deleted the files. you could try to emulate something like that (unless you use the portableapps.com installer, & I'm sure you do), but that isn't portable as all, ¿is it? (& anyway, they didnt save your configurations...)
Hm...
You'll need to know which Enviroment Variable it accesses to get the path.
Could you tell us the path of the fonts folder?
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The path to the Fonts folder is C:\Windows\Fonts
It's either:
Try them all.
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