Is it possible for the installer to use the directory it's in (ie. the directory it was downloaded to) for the install directory if it doesn't find a PortableApps drive? This is what it use to do before (7-zip extractor) it got 'smart' (NSIS).
This shouldn't be too hard to implement, and it would help me tremendously.
Visit the Community page
Join our forums
Subscribe to our email newsletter
Subscribe with RSS
Follow us on BlueSky
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on LinkedIn
Follow us on Mastodon
Follow us on Twitter
It's that way on purpose so that less-experienced users don't accidentally install it to their desktop.
It's primarily designed to work with the PortableApps.com Platform and auto-detect where it's supposed to go even when you launch it directly. As long as you have a PortableApps directory in the root directory of a drive on your system, it'll find it.
You can download one and install it to the same directory as before, but that's a far secondary choice.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
It can be done easily, but most people don't install to the current directory. I think if there setup is like:
X:\PortableSoftware\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable
It will force them to find out where they are really s'posed to install to. Just my view.
Thanks for explaining. John, can you lock this?