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@ Emka: How about copying the "conf" and "indexes" folders into the new DocFetcher folder?

@Emka: Nah, it's okay. Thanks to you, I've actually learned something new about where certain types of program errors might come from.

@Emka: This makes a lot of sense, actually. The thing about Java programs is that the program parts are contained in jar files, which are found and loaded dynamically. So if you simply unpack your DocFetcher versions on top of one another, you'll end up with a mix of jar files from different program...

@Emka: I tried launching DocFetcher from a different partition (a mounted TrueCrypt volume, actually), but no problem with the .swt folder. What happens if you launch DocFetcher from the same partition, e.g. from the Desktop? I will check this again the next time I get my hands on a Windows 7 box, b...

@Emka: This is strange... Does DocFetcher do anything suspicious on startup, such as displaying a message window or something like that? What's your system configuration? What's the exact path of the recreated .swt folder? What's inside the recreated .swt folder? When I launch up portable DocFetcher...

@Emka: I didn't do anything special, I just downloaded and used the portable DocFetcher 1.1.2 release. (Download link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/docfetcher/files/docfetcher/1.1.2/ ) If you're still seeing the .swt folder in your user profile, maybe it's because it's a left-over from a previous...

DocFetcher 1.1 is out (not beta anymore), and the .swt folder with the DLL files is gone.

Edit: Actually, the .swt folder is not gone, but in the portable DocFetcher edition it's created inside the DocFetcher folder. So it still qualifies as "portable".

webfork wrote: If settings are included in the SWT, we wouldn't consider that portable.

Nope, the SWT directory doesn't contain settings, just libraries that make up the GUI of the program.

1: Bummer. I've been trying for a while to push Java programs here on the site and if that continues to be the case (combined with bad stewardship by Oracle), its likely they'll see even less interest. I did a bit of research on this. Turns out there's an undocumented Java system property named &qu...

Emka wrote:Beta 5 is available, still leaves said folder on Win7x64.

1) This is the standard behavior of "SWT", DocFetcher's GUI library, and I don't think the SWT team is going to change that anytime soon.

2) What's the big deal with this anyway?