Thread: File associations added without prompt; portable mode not honored.
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Old 07-24-2020, 09:52 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by hellonurse View Post
Scenario b): I take the portable installer, unpack the program, run calibre-portable.exe -- OK, fine, nothing is added or changed. Then I somehow navigate to Calibre Portable\Calibre and launch calibre.exe from there. Guess what happens? I get the configuration master yet again, and even though I don't even finish it (as I press "Cancel"), I get everything added to the registry, to the AppData, and all those file associations.

Isn't it possible to make *everything* under Calibre Portable\* aware of the fact that we're using the portable mode?
What even is the point of doing that? If you want Calibre itself to run in portable mode, run calibre-portable.exe.

ebook-viewer and the others do save their settings in the proper place in portable mode.
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