How do you make SU7 portable?

Hazza

My situation, I have my own laptop, an external USB hard drive and a computer at work. I install SU on the laptop, copy the folder to the HDD, take the HDD to work, run SU fromthe external HDD. With SU6 this worked flawlessly, SU7 gives me the following error:

@unknownuser said:

This application has failed to start because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

I don't have enough rights to install anything onthe work computer but I am permitted (permission wise and corporate policy wise) to run applications fom the external HDD.

I am thinking that the configuration is either in the registry that only gets created during installation or stored in a file.

Can any body help?

Stu

OK, you are saving a file from SU 7 to an external hard drive and then attempting to open it from the HD with SU6 at work?
If this is the case either upgrade the work computer to SU 7 or save the file to the HD as a SU 6 file.

Hazza

Ahh no.... To simply the understanding of the process and the problem I am having:

Install SU on laptop
Copy the entire SU directory from Program Files to external HDD
Run SU from HDD on laptop, works fine
Plug HDD into work PC
Run SU

Doing those steps with SU6 works fine, the shortcuts and toolbar settings are not carried over but the program works fine. Doing the same steps with SU7 gives the error message.

I started a model in SU6, finished it with SU7 last night on the laptop. Now I can't upload it using the work PC because it won't open with SU6 and I can't open SU7.

I hope I don't have to wait until I get home next week before I can upload my new SU7 models

fefillo

I'm interested in the solution to this too.

Dave R

How are you dealing with the Registry files that SU7 would be looking for? Are you just expecting SU7 to read the SU6 Registry files?

If you've only got SU6 on the machine at work, why wouldn't you save the file out of SU7 as an SU6 file?

Hazza

@dave r said:

How are you dealing with the Registry files that SU7 would be looking for? Are you just expecting SU7 to read the SU6 Registry files?

I expected SU7 to do the same automagical thing that SU6 did. I did nothing to the registry when I first run SU6 from the portable HDD.

I know I could probably save the files as SU6 files while working in SU7 but that takes the fun out of it, I want to be able to run SU7 at work too.

It's like when you first get a scroll mouse, you think "the enhancements are nice but pffft..... I would not miss them"... at a later date you get to a computer without a scroll mouse... which you promptly throw in the bin on the way to the supply cupboard to get one...

Hazza

@unknownuser said:

Hazza, see this topic: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?p=100394

Not really what I wanted, but if that's what I have to do then that is what I have to do.

Hazza

The server crash and restore has wiped out how I achieved this using a combination of MojoPac and ThinApp:

Install MojoPac, this gives you a "clean" Windows install
Within the MojoPac environment install ThinApp
Start the ThinApp creation process
Install SU7
Configure SU7 with plugins and toolbar preferences etc
Continue the ThinApp creation process
Shutdown MojoPac
Copy the created ThinApp to the external HDD
Enjoy using SU7 no matter where you go
Curse Microsoft for making everyones life so much harder and more complicated than it should be

...well the last one is optional but it is an option I exercise at every oppurtunity.

I am hoping that the 60 day trial licence for ThinApp only applies to the creation process and does not apply to the application created. I guess I will find out in 55 days.

linea

Thanks Hazza, I want to try this.

Gaieus

Thanks Hazza for the heads-up and restoring the solution - and sorry for the crash again.