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Post by George on Jun 27, 2015 10:54:26 GMT -5
Jonas: Interesting. How do you manage to get everything you install to use H:? I know I have numerous things installed that never so much as asked you where to install. And many times simply moving stuff after they've installed it to Program Files to another location doesn't work as they've setup registry entries etc.
George
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2015 22:38:55 GMT -5
It works good with programs like firefox, thunderbird, gimp, php, apache, vlc, ...
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Post by TheFeDuke on Dec 12, 2015 2:32:06 GMT -5
Hello, again.
I have been going portable for some time now, but I have not been able to move past Ver 8.2. I am using the same technique as in the help, but my options.ini keeps been accessed from the SPFLite folder in Documents and not the Config folder on the memory stick. The changes.txt does not describe withdrawal of the portable option and I really like the feature. I have updated, uninstalled, reinstalled and rebuilt portable versions of both 8.3 versions. They all function but are not really portable and collide in one documents folder.
During my experiments, I created a V8.3.5295 portable setup exhibiting non-portability. I then copied SPFLite.exe from my working V8.2.5179. This made it point to the Config folder for OPTIONS, naturally exhibiting a .kbd incompatibility. From this, I am inferring that the 8.3 SPFLite.exe files have dropped the logic to check for the presence of the Config folder.
At the moment, I am running functionally stabilized SPFLite V8.2 (system and portable) on my functionally stabilized Win XP system, system V8.3 and portable V8.2 on a Win7 laptop system and pseudo-portable V8.3 with no system SPFLite and portable V8.2 on a Win7 desktop system. When I get rolling, I have colorized shortcut icons and window icons for my SPFLite and DOS Prompt testing windows with matching SPFLite FM color bars and quoted text coordinated with the physical color of my memory sticks. This helps me to keep oriented when bouncing among the windows.
Please set me straight if I missed something. I can zip an SPFLite folder and post a cloud link if need be.
Thanks, (the unbalanced colorize guy),
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Post by Robert... on Dec 12, 2015 8:50:40 GMT -5
FYI, you did know that 8.2 is the last version that will work on XP, right? There is a conflict in a DLL for regular expressions we ran into, so 8.3 needs Windows 7 or later.
We have tried real hard in the past to keep things backward compatible, but we just couldn't do it this time. If you're going to keep XP you'll have to use 8.2 on it. I understand why you'd want to keep XP; I was the same way for a long time, but Win 7 won me over. I just built a new machine, and put Win 7 on it; it runs great.
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Post by George on Dec 12, 2015 12:19:48 GMT -5
thefeduke: Yes, the \CONFIG change got dropped during the 8.2 to 8.3 migration. If you'd like a corrected version prior to the next release, you can download it from spflite.com/Files/SPFLite835346.ex_Let me know if it does not properly correct things. George
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Post by TheFeDuke on Dec 12, 2015 15:54:27 GMT -5
If you'd like a corrected version prior to the next release, you can download it Thank you, George. That works great now. I got that, Robert. My power machine is the Win 7 Desktop and I have a Win 7 Laptop with a damaged keyboard and forgotten password that I salvaged from an acquaintance that I use in good weather out on the porch. I am too cheap to discard the XP but I can make it Wifi movies to my TV while I work on the other. That leaves a question. When upgrading my 8.3 version, do I rebuild the portable each time or can I apply the downloaded setup program to the removable media folder directly? Regards,
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Post by George on Dec 14, 2015 14:19:51 GMT -5
You really should re-build the portable version. I don't think pointing the installer at the portable files will work properly. Never tried it, but the more I think about it, the less promising it looks. Play it safe.
George
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