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Originally Posted by anacreon
I need portable programs for everything possible for archiving and synchronizing between computers. It's enough hassle redoing parameters for Microsoft Office and Photoshop etc.
And I refuse to add any data of mine I can avoid on any cloud that isn't mine - just as I've refused Facebook and such from day 1. I do know that there are many already floating around, but let's not add to it.
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It is possible to change a Calibre Portable 32 bit install to a 64 bit install. This does require extracting files from a calibre-x64 msi and copying the calibre folder into the Calibre folder in the portable install.
Doing a step by step procedure
- Download calibre-64bit-4.23.0.msi from calibre's download site
- Create a directory called extraction in the root of your C: drive. Inside the directory create a directory called calibre423
- Copy the downloaded msi file to the extraction directory
- Open an administrator command prompt and cd /d c:\extraction
- enter "msiexec /a calibre-64bit-4.23.0.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\extraction\calibre423" on the command line.
- Checking in the calibre423 directory, you should no see a directory called PFiles with a Calibre2 directory inside it. Copy the contents of the Calibre2 directory to the Calibre directory in your portable install overwriting the existing files.
- Run the calibre-portable.exe executable in the root of the Calibre Portable directory and you should now be running a 64 bit calibre portable install.
Edit: yes, I know there are other tools for extracting files from msi files.