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Multi Commander => Support and Feedback => Topic started by: ja74 on September 11, 2011, 20:42:35

Title: Portable installation.
Post by: ja74 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.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: Mathias (Author) 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 ?

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: ja74 on September 12, 2011, 17:05:13

Quote from: Mathias (Author) 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.

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.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: Mathias (Author) 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.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: ja74 on September 12, 2011, 22:36:22

Ok thanks!  ;)

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: Mathias (Author) on September 13, 2011, 22:41:16

Or maybe not. Was only able to reproduce it once.

Strange.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: ja74 on September 13, 2011, 22:56:57

That's odd ???
I tested it in different computers and always had the same result.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: Mathias (Author) 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.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: ja74 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.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: Mathias (Author) 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 (http://forum.multicommander.com/forum/index.php/topic,3.0.html)

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: ja74 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.

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: Mathias (Author) 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) (http://multicommander.com/files/updates/MultiCommander_32bit_(841).zip)

Title: Re: Portable installation.
Post by: ja74 on September 15, 2011, 00:41:06

That worked, nice job! :D

Thank you!