Moving from one version to another is easy with the portable version. However you always have to check if you have moved all custom files, like xnview.ini, bookmarks.ini, xnvie.db and thumbnails.db etc when they reside in the application folder.
I suggest to change data organization to have a central "data" folder where these reside so moving from one version to the next would be even easier.
Data organization
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Re: Data organization
The xnview.ini file allows you to specify folder paths for all other files (up to 3 separate folders). (use menu 'tools->settings->integration->paths). Do this once, then...jadO wrote:Moving from one version to another is easy with the portable version. However you always have to check if you have moved all custom files, like xnview.ini, bookmarks.ini, xnvie.db and thumbnails.db etc when they reside in the application folder.
I suggest to change data organization to have a central "data" folder where these reside so moving from one version to the next would be even easier.
The xnview.ini file itself must be findable when xnviewMP starts. From my experiments it looks like you can specify xnview.ini file location with command line parameter ''-ini <path\to\ini\file>".
Otherwise copy only the xnview.ini file to the new installation folder. That's easier than editing the new shortcut. And it avoids any potential back-compatibility problems if a single copy of xnview.ini is accessed by multiple versions of xnviewMP. Of course, you still have these potential issues with sharing the other DBs etc.
The standalone version will also find xnview.ini in your own AppData\roaming\xnviewMP if one was not found in the program starting folder. That is the better option, unless you are trying to run portable and full installation on the same PC.