Thread: I thought Portable meant Portable - It Doesn't
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Old 04-01-2014, 03:25 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by DoctorOhh View Post
It never occurred to me either, but something had to be amiss. So I tried running calibre.exe and I ended up with the welcome wizard setting up a brand new install with the settings placed as the OP sees them. Additionally, my install is nowhere near the programs folder.
Which makes sense considering the whole point of that entire folder is to actually be the regular calibre executables.

calibre-portable.exe is an upgrade to the previous system of using a batch file to run the regular calibre executables after setting the environment variables for the settings folder and startup library to point to relative locations inside the "Calibre Portable" folder.

It doesn't matter where a program is installed to, "Program Files"/"Program Files (x86)" is just a convention. Many programs actually offer to install elsewhere. Environment variables (usually "%APPDATA%") control everything.

Um, what ELSE was running the regular calibre.exe supposed to do?

@RBraverman, multiple times people have suggested making sure you are running the calibrePortable.exe, can you confirm you are doing that?
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