Thread: I thought Portable meant Portable - It Doesn't
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Old 03-31-2014, 10:09 PM   #22
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Originally Posted by RBraverman View Post
Just changed Notebooks - the only S/W change is it went x64. I use Calibre Portable -on purpose.
I copied over the c:\program files\calibre-portable folder to c:\program files (x86)\ and even (which should not be there!) users\appdata\calibre and NONE of my settings are there, my specials sets nothing, it wants me to start from scratch.

What did the author do, that apparantly made this semi-portable?

OR of course what did I do wrong.
I have discovered, and verified on my system, why you are having the issues you describe.

Surprise! You are not running calibre portable.

To run calibre portable you are suppose to run the calibre-portable.exe not the calibre.exe file. If you run calibre.exe it will create a settings file exactly where you found it. If you run calibre-portable.exe it will launch calibre.exe with the proper variables and use the settings within the calibre portable path exactly as we have all described.
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