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Portable Updates?

Unread post by Dave Moon » 2016-08-31, 17:31

I've just started running the Pale Moon 26.4.0 x64 portable (Win 7). So far, I'm impressed. When Pale Moon updates how do I save my profie/customisations etc? Thanks.
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Dave Moon

Re: Portable Updates?

Unread post by Dave Moon » 2016-09-01, 02:46

Actually, I've figured this out. I can copy the 'User' folder to a new version. :thumbup:
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dark_moon

Re: Portable Updates?

Unread post by dark_moon » 2016-09-01, 08:45

Then please mark the topic as solved :)
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Dave Moon

Re: Portable Updates?

Unread post by Dave Moon » 2016-09-01, 12:59

Ok, I think I did that correctly. :thumbup:
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New Tobin Paradigm

Re: Portable Updates?

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2016-09-01, 16:27

Why not let Pale Moon update its self internally with its own updater.
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Re: Portable Updates?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2016-09-01, 16:52

Matt A Tobin wrote:Why not let Pale Moon update its self internally with its own updater.
Tobin.. it's the portable. I actually don't recommend using the internal updater for that. it's an option but better to have a clean extraction.

www.palemoon.org wrote:I already have an earlier version of palemoon-portable. How do I upgrade?
Recommended method:

Download and extract the portable version of your choice to an empty folder.
Copy the "user" folder from your old installation over to your new one.
Optionally, if you have created a user.ini file for the portable, also copy this file to the new folder, or duplicate any changes you have made to the old .ini file.
Test if everything is OK, and if so, delete the old installation folder.
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Re: Portable Updates?

Unread post by New Tobin Paradigm » 2016-09-01, 17:10

I see.. Yeah, I guess it could get a little messy.. I mean, theoretically it should be fine.. but it could also go wrong if for some reason it forgot it's portable state..

Not to mention it wouldn't update the portable stub launcher and that could need it.. Best to do it manually then.
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Re: Portable Updates?

Unread post by Dave Moon » 2016-09-01, 18:38

I experimented with it, it's a lot like updating many portables, a bit like K-Meleon. I just guessed the 'User' folder would be the right thing to copy to the new portable.

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