Portable? #63
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Is webcord portable? just wanted to ask |
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Yes, there's an AppImage version for Linux – if you create one of the special directories next to the WebCord's downloaded AppImage, your data should be saved next to your AppImage (inside this directory), making it portable once you move your AppImage to e.g. your USB drive. MacOS and Windows releases are packed into ZIP files, which could be considered as portable in way of saving binaries on external mass storage devices – however, comparing to the AppImages, user data won't be saved next to the extracted application. The good news are this could be easily changed within the code by specifying an Electron directory in which user data is saved. See Electron docs for further details. |
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hmmm Got it Thanks! |
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Just tried it, and it seems to work fine. But for some reason an empty "Dictionaries" folder keeps getting created inside of AppData/Roaming/WebCord on Windows. 🤔 |
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@nero-0 I guess that's for the text auto-complete feature – I believe that directory should contain all the needed language dictionaries downloaded from the Chromium project. If that's the case, I have no control over that to remove it. |
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I guess that is not the case, since the same folder is created in the path where I selected to save the data, and the .bdic files are there and not in AppData/etc. You can try and investigate in your spare time if you want. 😉 As a workaround, I used Edit: After doing some research, I could notice that it is a bug in Electron. Some reported issues: electron/electron#26039 and electron/electron#28598 |
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Yes, there's an AppImage version for Linux – if you create one of the special directories next to the WebCord's downloaded AppImage, your data should be saved next to your AppImage (inside this directory), making it portable once you move your AppImage to e.g. your USB drive.
MacOS and Windows releases are packed into ZIP files, which could be considered as portable in way of saving binaries on external mass storage devices – however, comparing to the AppImages, user data won't be saved next to the extracted application. The good news are this could be easily changed within the code by specifying an Electron directory in which user data is saved. See Electron docs for further details.