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noii YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	processing on a usb thumb drive Sep 15^th, 2006, 6:06pm anyone tried running processing off a usb flash drive or other portable device? much like these: http://portableapps.com/ at first glance, it seems that handling the preference files portably would be the only challenge. anyone tried this and run into other snags?

fry

Re: processing on a usb thumb drive
Reply #1 - Sep 17^th, 2006, 9:11pm

it would be possible with a couple minor changes:

1) you'd have to modify lib/preferences.txt, the default prefs file, to use a relative url to the drive, rather than the default location. i *think* this is still possible but i've not looked at it in a while. see the notes in that file. if it's not possible, i'll make tweaks to the app so that you can.

2) on macosx, when using the FAT filesystem found on thumb drives, sometimes appledouble files are included that have resource fork or type/creator information. for instance, a file called:
blah.pde
might also have a:
._blah.pde
file that contains the additional metadata. this will cause p5 to crash when it tries to run the code, since it "looks" like proper code since it has the .pde extension. i've fixed this for the (unreleased) rev 0116, but it'd be a problem in the meantime.

noii

Re: processing on a usb thumb drive
Reply #2 - Sep 26^th, 2006, 6:57pm

i made these changes to the default preferences.txt file:

sketchbook.path=../sketchbook
sketchbook.path.fallback=../sketchbook

settings.path=../data
settings.path.fallback=../data

it respects the relative '../data' path, and creates a new folder called 'data' next to the 'processing-0115' folder, but it does not seem to respect the '../sketchbook' path. looking in the personal preferences file it created in 'data', it has put the 'sketchbook' folder in the normal place instead:
sketchbook.path=C:\Documents and Settings\noii\My Documents\Processing

> if it's not possible, i'll make tweaks to the app so that you can.
i guess the tweaks may be needed?

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: processing on a usb thumb drive Reply #3 - Sep 27^th, 2006, 10:08pm the issue is that the sketchbook folder must first exist on the thumb drive, otherwise it will think the path is a bad one, and jump back to the default location (that's what the error message that comes up means). i've made a note of this in the prefs file.

RH01 YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 1	Re: processing on a usb thumb drive Reply #4 - Feb 24^th, 2008, 7:54pm Does anyone have Processing up and running on a thumb drive yet? I am a newbie so if anyone could point me to the basic steps involved it would be greatly appreciated. I do have the basic Portable Apps loaded at this point. Thanks

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