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JohnTHaller wrote:Be careful as the 'natively portable' setup you have with fonts installed will crash when run from long paths.

Ah well, so be it ... caveat emptor.
This seems to have been a longstanding hazard with OpenOffice and then LibreOffice.

I cannot speak on behalf of anybody, but it's useful for me. I prefer to use the installer and edit the bootstrap.ini file for three reasons: 1) Using the installer, I have complete control over the components that I need and those I do not need to install (that is something that can't be achieved ...

With LibreOffice 3.6, try with: [ErrorReport] ErrorReportPort=80 ErrorReportServer= [Bootstrap] InstallMode=<installmode> ProductKey=LibreOffice 3.6 UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/../settings ("settings" or the name of your choice). A "user" subfolder will be created inside "sett...

It definitively looks better. By the way, I still use your great tip to store LibreOffice's settings in the application folder. Why did you remove it? Thank you! I removed the tip for LibreOffice because I couldn't get it working, for some unexplained reason, with versions 3.5.x (using the Portable...

I am Baas wrote:CøøL. Thank you, BigD.

I like the "new look" of your Website, b(^.^)d

Many thanks - it's always nice to get a compliment!

I've made a portable package of Unison 2.40.16 available for download from here.
Please let me know if I've overlooked anything.


edit: Subject amended to include LibreOffice since discussion has strayed away from Unison

Just found out that Gorilla has a commandline option:
--rc configfile : Use as configuration file (not the Registry)
so no need for a wrapper batch file after all, and this makes Gorilla truly portable.

> 2) The folder where gorilla.exe is stored shouldn't have spaces in its pathname. Ah -- I kinda need that. Thanks anyhow. In my batch file, use the following command instead to allow for the path containing spaces: start "" "%~dp0gorilla.exe" That should fix it for you. (Have a...

Tried to make a go of the batch file, but I tried to run it from my desktop and it gave me an error "windows cannot find 'c:\Documents'. Make sure you typed the name correctly and try again." Anyone know a way around this? Oh and I verified the program is still saving settings to the user...

This may be the case, but how did you get the settings to save portably? I looked at this recently and couldn't find anything and PA seems satisfied with KeePass: http://portableapps.com/node/13709 Please look at the script in my comment timed '2012-01-18 15:27' at the link above. As for KeePass, i...

I've realized that Password Gorilla v1.5.x is much more useful - open-source, secure, cross-platform, and can be made portable - than I'd thought. I'd overlooked the program since v1.4.x was the last obviously portable version. I've added some comments to its database entry at http://www.portablefre...

I would agree that this is a very useful program, even more than SQLiteSpy. It is cross-platform, and has only a single executable for Linux too.
Though I'm rarely using Windows these days, RegShot suggests that this program is "registry hygienic".

I hope you will not get stuck into Linux only - XP is still quite alive too 8) Ahem, confession time for a minimalist: I was really a Win 2000 man, and only have to use Win XP at work under duress! The extra bloat of XP for a tiny amount of dubiously improved function over 2000 never convinced me, ...

zikarus, Sorry about the nuisance with Pocket K-Meleon 1.1 not running occasionally on some systems. However, try copying MSVCP71.DLL and MSVCR71.DLL into the K-Meleon program folder (or newer versions of them) and see if it works. That solved the problems which I had on some Win XP+SP2 machines. Al...

@FlightGeek

Did you install it via the method I described or did you run the downloaded .exe file?

Using the Universal Extractor method did not register the .trl extension on my system (Win 2000).