Portable becomes non portable on win7
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:07 am
Iron portable has the following dir structure.
/IronPortable.exe
/Iron/
/Profile/
of note is that /Iron/ contains /Iron/Iron.exe
/Iron/Iron.exe runs a non portable version of iron that stores the settings ... well I have no idea where, I couldn't find it. But I empirically tested it to be:
1. Unique per computer.
2. Independent of the profile directory in the portable folder.
Issue 1:
When you run /IronPortable.exe and choose "pin to taskbar", all future runs via the taskbar will open /Iron/Iron.exe instead of the /IronPortable.exe making it non portable!
Issue 2:
There is no explanation of the fact that you should only run /IronPortable.exe and not /Iron/Iron.exe due to the latter running as a non portable version.
Issue 3:
Where does /Iron/Iron.exe store its profile? I want to move it to the portable directory.
Would doing so hamper portability?
/IronPortable.exe
/Iron/
/Profile/
of note is that /Iron/ contains /Iron/Iron.exe
/Iron/Iron.exe runs a non portable version of iron that stores the settings ... well I have no idea where, I couldn't find it. But I empirically tested it to be:
1. Unique per computer.
2. Independent of the profile directory in the portable folder.
Issue 1:
When you run /IronPortable.exe and choose "pin to taskbar", all future runs via the taskbar will open /Iron/Iron.exe instead of the /IronPortable.exe making it non portable!
Issue 2:
There is no explanation of the fact that you should only run /IronPortable.exe and not /Iron/Iron.exe due to the latter running as a non portable version.
Issue 3:
Where does /Iron/Iron.exe store its profile? I want to move it to the portable directory.
Would doing so hamper portability?