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asper
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ReadOnly device

Hi to all,
I'm new in this forum and I would like to know if the launcher can work on a readonly usb stick.
Many thanks in advance for any info

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Launcher, yes, anything else possibly no

Launcher, yes, anything else possibly no

A use situation is helpful in cases like this.

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To clarify.

To clarify, there is no official support for running the platform on read-only devices.
Some individual applications may be more tolerant of that, but there isn't going to be a lot of demand for that feature.
There are very few devices with a read-only switch, and even the media such as SD cards with switches are not entirely read-only due to the switch often being something read by the system, and not actually blocking writing.

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There is

There is an option on "AppPortable.ini" located at "Other\Source" called "RunLocally". If you set it to "true", the launcher will copy all application files to a temp directory on host computer, even your data folder, and run locally.
You must copy "AppPortable.ini" with modification to the root folder where the launcher is located.

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Was not aware of that.

I seemed to recall an earlier thread suggesting there wasn't support, perhaps I remembered the details wrong.

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No Longer Supported

We'd modified some of the early apps to work with a live mode so you could run them off of a CD years ago. But as it never caught on and optical drives died off, we stopped supporting it. So, the apps have changed a lot since then but none of the tools we added to allow them to run read-only have. That's why we no longer support or test it.

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