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How to migrate user defined commands
« on: January 08, 2025, 19:49:10 »
No doubt what I like most about Multicommander is the ability to create my own user defined commands.  I also prefer to use the portable versions of Multicommander because this make it easy to try a new version and verify it works as expected before doing any harm to a prior version.  My guess is that I'm not the only one.

A problem I'm having occurs when installing a new release, which is quite easy, I want to also migrate my scripts (i.e., User Defined Commands) to the new version.  I haven't figured out how to do that other than by reinstalling them.  In that, redoing much of the original work involved in producing the those commands.

I hoping there might be an easier way that someone could help me to learn.

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Re: How to migrate user defined commands
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2025, 21:56:30 »
All the UDC scripts are located in Config\Scripts\ the upgrade tool should not delete them.

How do you upgrade to new version ?

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Re: How to migrate user defined commands
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2025, 16:15:53 »
I use USB drives to run most of the application software that I use in portable fashion.  Therefore, I extract the application software (i.e., Multicommander ) from the zip archive to a new folder used for the new version of Multicommander (MC).  In that, leave prior versions completely unchanged.

My User Defined Commands (UDCs) are located in a folder called "MyScripts" which I do see is located in Config/Scripts.  When I copied that to the new version of Multicommander (MC) it does look like they show up in the new version which does solve a good bit of my problem.

However, I also customize the menu with an item named "Mine" which is used to invoke the UDCs.  Is there a similar capability for adding it to the newly installed version of MC?


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Re: How to migrate user defined commands
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2025, 16:55:17 »
MultiCommanders update tool will update the portable setup. It will not delete or overwrite anything it should not.

If you want to migrate manually.. then copy everything in Config/* from your current portable to the new portable.