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Portable Mode #1
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Thank you! Sounds like a good suggestion. I'm on it. |
Just rolled a new update according to option #2 (just portable without extension, directory works too). |
Excellent news! I will download and test it soon. I may also suggest a few other enhancements. Regards |
I did a very brief testing of LIII BitTorrent Client version 0.1.0.2 and I can confirm that creating By the way you wrote that "directory works too"- what do you mean exactly? That creating Anyway, the program has good potential and I will do more tests. I will also write a short article about the program as I promised (I hope I will do it soon). Since portable mode is implemented you may close this issue. |
I mean that installation script modification was easier for the directory: Line 35 in 7df6792
But I am afraid that adding this option to the installation is not quite good because enabling it can break installation to the default directory. |
I posted a short review about the program at The Portable Freeware Forum, you can find it here. I presumed that it should work under Windows 7 or newer, is that right? |
Thank you! |
Currently (as of version 0.1.0.1) LIII BitTorrent Client saves data and settings in AppData:
C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\LIII\LIII
I would like to suggest portable mode- data and settings saved not in AppData but in program folder (where is the executable- LIII.exe). This can be implemented in a variety of ways, several examples:
LIII.exe -portable
, data and settings are saved in program folder;portable
without extension orportable.txt
) triggers portable mode, when LIII BitTorrent Client starts it checks program folder for such file and if it is there data and settings are saved in program folder;modelState.xml
) and if it is there the program uses it and also saves torrents data in program folder;LIII
ordata
) and of it is there it saves data and settings in this sub-folder;LIII.exe
toLIII-Portable.exe
the program starts in portable mode, data and settings are saved in program folder;Portable mode
, which, if selected, forces the program to save data and settings in program folder;Any of these methods would be fine for me, however I prefer method 2 (portable flag)- it is easy for the user, there is no need to use command-line parameters, creating
portable
file in program folder enables portable mode, deleting it disables portable mode- easy, convenient, simple, flexible.I believe that portable mode would be useful not only for me- there are users who prefer portable programs which do not write outside their folders (no AppData, no User profile, no Windows registry). Such programs are easy to backup and transfer.
In fact many torrent clients (Deluge, Halite, PicoTorrent, qBittorrent, Tixati, uTorrent, etc) already support portable mode.
If portable mode is implemented in future releases of LIII BitTorrent Client I may write a short review about the program in a forum dedicated to portable freeware.
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