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legnakrad
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PhotoFiltre Portable - plugins location vs PA.c Updater

hello

this is the location of the plugins
\PortableApps\PhotoFiltrePortable\App\PhotoFiltre\Plugins

there is no specific PA.c pakage for the plugins so i just download it from the PhotoFiltre site and extracted them into that location

when updating a future release of PhotoFiltre Portable using the PA.c Updater will i loose the plugins or will be kept ?

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Gone

The only folder that gets saved is \Data and whatever it includes as in:
\PortableApps\PhotoFiltrePortable\Data\

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Maybe

Check if the file App\AppInfo\Installer.ini contains something like:

[DirectoriesToPreserve]
PreserveDirectory1=App\PhotoFiltre\Plugins

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They are kept

because the App\AppInfo\Installer.ini tells the installer to keep the App folder.

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Right

The RemoveAppDirectory=false line keeps the App folder from being deleted, which means plugins won't be deleted either.

@John: should that be changed to only preserve the plugin and language folders, or do you think the entire App folder should be preserved?

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My thoughts

If you keep the entire "App" folder, the base app won't get updated as the new files are ignored.

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Incorrect

Updated files will be updated. The problem is only that files which have been deleted in the new version won't be, so you could potentially get things breaking as a result.

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Scrub it

There is a reason that RemoveAppDirectory defaults to true. You should use PreserveDirectory lines unless it's arbitrary what needs to be kept.

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Will do

I'll pull that RemoveAppDirectory and replace it with a PreserveDirectory for Plugins and one for Languages. Do you think I should preserve Masks, Patterns, and Selections too? (I'm inclined to, just in case the user has some custom stuff set up, but I don't want to go overboard on preserving things)

While we're discussing this, do you think it warrants a revision? Photofiltre is rarely updated (looking at its changelog, time between updates has ranged from a few months to nearly a year), so I'm favoring a revision just so the fix actually gets out the door.

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