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Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2019 8:30 pm
by webfork

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:38 am
by Midas
With some bad news(?):
Windows Download

A volunteer has kindly stepped up to provide a Windows installer here:

https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter

Since I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows personally, please consider helping out our volunteer at issue #367 if you are interested.
@ https://github.com/wereturtle/ghostwriter/releases

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2019 12:04 pm
by webfork
Midas wrote: Mon Feb 18, 2019 4:38 am I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows personally
Ouch.

Re: vs-ghostwriter

Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 4:27 am
by Midas
There's hope, still... :)

vs-ghostwriter [is] a fork of Ghostwriter. A beautiful cross-platform markdown editor, however this fork is intended to be compiled into VS 2017 (MSVC) x64 for Windows only. This repository arises from the need to have a Ghostwriter functional Windows version because, as announced by wereturtle, will no longer provide updates for Windows.
@ https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter


Latest vs-ghostwriter is v1.8.0, dated 2019-05-15 (https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter/releases).

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:09 am
by hamasaki
Yes, Ghostwriter isn`t portable. Cutemarked portable is also not portable.

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2019 6:03 pm
by webfork
hamasaki wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 10:09 am Yes, Ghostwriter isn`t portable.
Earlier posts seem to suggest that it was. Where is writing settings now?

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2019 5:56 am
by hamasaki
Yes, it definitely used to be. For me it was writing to both 'AppData/Local' and 'AppData/Roaming'. I`ve ditched it now.

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 5:12 am
by Midas
FYI, I found no traces at either location after running Ghostwriter v1.6.2, one of the last official portable versions -- only v1.7.0 and 1.7.1 were released afterwards, which I haven't tested.

Are you sure it doesn't keep its settings when moved?

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:19 am
by hamasaki
I`ve just downloaded the so called portable version of '1.8.0'. Added it to my portable drive, ran it and it creates a load of files/folders at:

AppData\Local\ghostwriter\ghostwriter\*
AppData\Roaming\ghostwriter\*

So, totally not portable.

Re: vs-ghostwriter

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 9:28 am
by Midas
So you now confirmed that we are talking about vs-ghostwriter, the forked version of the previous ghostwriter.

What you haven't confirmed is that vs-ghostwriter v1.8.0 leaves its settings behind when you move computers.

You see, having traces in '%APPDATA%' is not at all the same as not being portable.

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 4:07 pm
by hamasaki
Understand. If I plug the drive into my other laptop, the appData folders remain on the previous laptop. And the settings aren`t transferred.

Actually, there are a number of things that happen with my external drive that I can`t figure out. For example, Thunderbird portable. If I run it on laptop A it's ok, I then unplug the drive and plug it into laptop B, still ok. But then I plug it back into laptop A and the setup dialog appears as though it's the first time I'm running Thunderbird. This happens with Google Chrome, Firefox, KeePass etc. Permissions?

QOwnNotes, whenever I run the exe the setup dialog appears. With the --portable flag it's ok.

I can`t figure these issues out at the moment. Sorry for going slightly off topic. :(

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:52 am
by Midas
No problem, it's good to share info. 8)

You can test this in the same computer, too. Suppose you open up vs-ghostwriter, make changes to the default configuration, and close it. After this, you go to '%APPDATA%' and manually delete all the traces it left there.

Now, when you open vs-ghostwriter again, are your configuration changes gone? If this is the case then it's definitely a portability problem.

If not -- and while they may still be stored somewhere else outside of the program's folder -- it's probably just a matter of the program not being fully stealth.

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 6:38 am
by hamasaki
Thanks Midas. :)

OK, so cleared all folders and started from scratch.

1. On opening 'Ghostwriter', it creates the following the following in 'appData/roaming':

roaming.png
roaming.png (1.76 KiB) Viewed 14114 times

and the following in 'AppData/local'

local.png
local.png (4.66 KiB) Viewed 14114 times

2. If I change the settings and save, it adds one more file:

appData/roaming/ghostwriter.ini

3. I then delete 'appData/roaming/ghostwriter' and 'appData/local/ghostwriter' folders, run again and all settings are gone.

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:28 am
by Midas
Yep, contrary to the original ghostwriter, vs-ghostwriter is definitely not natively portable, especially considering point 2. :|

Let's approach the next steps.

Was there a mention about running vs-ghostwriter with a "--portable" parameter or am I mistaken?

If this is the case and all else fails, a batch command file (BAT/CMD) or a yaP launcher will ensure that vs-ghostwriter is always run with the "--portable" parameter; if not, there'll be other ways.

What about if you just place an empty 'ghostwriter.ini' in the program folder, the one where 'ghostwriter.exe' is? Or move the one created in '%APPDATA%' to the program folder?

Please, remember to remove everything in '%APPDATA%\ghostwriter' between tests.

Re: ghostwriter

Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 5:18 pm
by hamasaki
Midas wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:28 am Was there a mention about running vs-ghostwriter with a "--portable" parameter or am I mistaken?
No, nothing. No mention in the readme or anywhere else. I tried it, but same result.
Midas wrote: Tue Sep 03, 2019 8:28 amWhat about if you just place an empty 'ghostwriter.ini' in the program folder, the one where 'ghostwriter.exe' is? Or move the one created in '%APPDATA%' to the program folder?
Same result. Moving the data or creating a ini file before launch does nothing, everything still gets created in the appData folders.

But, the previous version had a 'data' folder, so I tried creating a 'data' folder and moving the files there, that has had a result. Now the 'appData/roaming' folder doesn`t get created and settings are saved to the 'data' folder. :)

The 'appData/local' folder still gets created, but I can live with that, at least the settings get saved now to the portable drive.

Thanks for the help Midas, really appreciate it.