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[WINDOWS] Portable Mode of Dharma? - ptx-chris - 2010-09-01 Hey guys, im new to your forums, though i'm not new to xbmc. But it's the first time, I can't figure out what to do. Im running a portable xbmc installation on Windows 7 and tried to update to Dharma beta 1. After the installation process, xbmc uses a new and empty database instead of my old one, all prefrences are gone. Before I installed, I did a backup of my old installtion. I tried to add the "-p" arguement to the link, but it didn't work. So, I need to know is, how I can put Dharma into portable mode, to make it use the userdata-folder inside the installation's folder. Thanks in advance Chris - >>X<< - 2010-09-01 Look inside the xbmc directory you should see a folder called "portable_data" that's where userdata now goes - ptx-chris - 2010-09-01 Thanks a lot, everything is working again - agarg - 2010-10-28 >>X<<' Wrote:Look inside the xbmc directory you should see a folder called "portable_data" that's where userdata now goes I am using Dharma B3 on WinXP and cant find any such folder under program files >> XBMC ... Do u have an absolute path? I want to make my current install into portable. Anil - jhsrennie - 2010-10-28 agarg Wrote:I am using Dharma B3 on WinXP and cant find any such folder under program files >> XBMC ... Run XBMC with the -p argument and it will create the portable_data for you in the correct place. JR - jaarjaar - 2011-03-05 I have feature request - to have the -p take a directory name as a parameter and use THAT directory as the portable_data directory. Of course lack of the parameter can still default to the same portable_data directory. - jhsrennie - 2011-03-06 If you just want to divert the portable_data to a fixed location, e.g. a NAS, then you can do this using a link. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_symbolic_link for details. If you want to have multiple separate portable_data locations the way to do this would be using profiles. Having said that, it isn't currently possible to specify a profile name as a command line parameter, though I think there is a fearture request in for this. JR - hendoben - 2011-07-04 jhsrennie Wrote:Run XBMC with the -p argument How do you do that? - jhsrennie - 2011-07-04 hendoben Wrote:How do you do that? Right click the icon you use to start XBMC and on the shortcut menu choose Properties. In the "Target" field you'll have something like: "C:\Program Files\XBMC\XBMC.exe" Click at the end of the text and type in the -p so you have: "C:\Program Files\XBMC\XBMC.exe" -p and click OK. Note that the -p goes outside the quotes. If you want to turn off portable mode just go back into the icon properties and remove the -p again. JR |