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'TheDucks', I'm not suggesting there be no TEMP writing. I'm suggesting it optionally be on the portable device itself. The whole concept of 'portable' is that something is as self contained as possible.
'itimpi', For a usb flash drive, it could be a problem. For a portable usb hard drive, it's not.
And by keeping it on your C: drive, you
1) keep using it while you might be trying to do something else. Possibly significant with a slow laptop drive. (Pretty much a given with most laptops, I guess.) But even with a desktop hard drive, that increases the thrashing while you are doing something else besides letting Calibre process a bunch of files or do a bulk conversion, etc. etc.
2) if your C: drive is a SSD, and your CalibrePortable is on a usb hard drive (along with other portable apps & data), then yhou are unnecessarily using up your SSD life span.
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