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ja74

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Portable installation.
« on: September 11, 2011, 20:42:35 »
Hi!

I'm having trouble installing to a pen-drive, the 64bit version installs fine but the 32bit hangs on the creation of the executable launcher.
Any ideas about this?

Tanks.

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2011, 16:06:57 »
So it works if you uncheck the "Create MCStart.exe in the root" option ? but hangs if it is checked.

What OS does it fails under Win7 ? Xp ?








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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2011, 17:05:13 »
So it works if you uncheck the "Create MCStart.exe in the root" option ? but hangs if it is checked.
Exactly.

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What OS does it fails under Win7 ? Xp ?

It fails under both Windows XP Professional SP3 32bit and Windows 7 SP1 32bit.

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2011, 21:52:02 »
You are correct. I been able to reproduce it now. I will try to fix this until the next release.

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2011, 22:36:22 »
Ok thanks!  ;)

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2011, 22:41:16 »
Or maybe not. Was only able to reproduce it once.

Strange.

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2011, 22:56:57 »
That's odd ???
I tested it in different computers and always had the same result.

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2011, 23:05:33 »
If you can.

Try enable the Application log and set log level to "information" and enable "save to file".

Menu -> Configuration > Core Settings > [tab] Logging.

To find the log file you can go to Menu > Help > Goto > Log Folder.

The file will be named "<date>-(num)-MultiCommander.log"  it should have some text in it that says

"<date> <time> [Transfer2PortalDevice] ......"

I would be like to see all the lines with "[Transfer2PortalDevice]"

That way I can track down how far it really gets.


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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2011, 23:43:50 »
These are the lines containing [Transfer2PortalDevice]

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2011-09-13 22:38:49.202 [Transfer2PortalDevice] Copy Multi Commander files.
2011-09-13 22:39:04.249 [Transfer2PortalDevice] Copy Configuration.
2011-09-13 22:39:05.061 [Transfer2PortalDevice] Copy Extensions Configuration.

After that it hangs and I have to kill the process.

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2011, 20:00:59 »
There is a new beta..  Build 840.  Try that. I changed how it will copy the files and improved error handling.


How to get beta

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2011, 20:20:56 »
I installed build 840 and it doesn't hang any more but it doesn't creates the StartMC.exe at the root of the device either. Sorry  ???

Here is the log:

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2011-09-14 19:15:03.509 [Transfer2PortableDevice] Copy Multi Commander files.
2011-09-14 19:15:21.666 [Transfer2PortableDevice] Copy Configuration.
2011-09-14 19:15:22.634 [Transfer2PortableDevice] Copy Extensions Configuration.
2011-09-14 19:16:55.510 [Transfer2PortableDevice] Copy Multi Commander files.
2011-09-14 19:17:12.588 [Transfer2PortableDevice] Copy Configuration.
2011-09-14 19:17:13.588 [Transfer2PortableDevice] Copy Extensions Configuration.
« Last Edit: September 14, 2011, 20:23:20 by ja74 »

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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2011, 22:49:20 »
Think I finally solved the problem.

Download the file and replace the .exe

New MultiCommander.exe (require build 840)


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Re: Portable installation.
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2011, 00:41:06 »
That worked, nice job! :D

Thank you!