Portable Total commander Settings

[beuvema]

Hi TC lovers,

I use TC on more computers. At the moment I transfer my Key every time I switch PC. No problem so far! Now I want to make the settings portable too. \windows\wincmd.ini and wcx_ftp.ini
Are there more files I need to take with me? and is there a setting to control the location these files are looked for?

Grtz Beuvema

[Gral]

Look here : http://www.ghisler.ch/wiki/index.php/Backup

From TC help
4a - Command line parameters

/i=name.ini Use a different INI file name.ini instead of wincmd.ini to save settings (see also: INI file description).
/F=ftpname.ini Use a different INI file name.ini instead of wcx_ftp.ini to save settings for built-in FTP client.

Also you can download this tool https://plugins.ghisler.com/addons/inireloc.zip

[beuvema]

Thx for your quick response, I'll check it right way

Grtz Beuvema

[beuvema]

It works great,

only one thing, is it possible to have the key file read from the location the ini files are read from?

Grtz Beuvema

[majkinetor]

U should also crate %COMMANDER_PATH% system variable and make all plugins register with that instead real path. That way, all plugins will work on any location

[beuvema]

Thx for your quick response majkinetor

I'am not sure what you mean exactly... with :

U should also crate %COMMANDER_PATH% system variable and make all plugins register with that instead real path. That way, all plugins will work on any location

hope you can clarify it a bit

Grtz Beuvema

[Sheepdog]

You could use the setting

[Configuration]
keypath=Any\location\you\would\like

in the wincmd.ini.

What majkinetor probably means is that, if you use the %Commander_path% variable to setup your plugins they will work on a portable TC version, too. e.g.

[ListerPlugins]
0=%COMMANDER_PATH%\plugins\WLX\SystemInfo.wlx

instead of

[ListerPlugins]
0=c:\totalcmd\plugins\WLX\SystemInfo.wlx


sheepdog

[beuvema]

You could use the setting

[Configuration]
keypath=Any\location\you\would\like

in the wincmd.ini.

This was the missing part
Thx, Beuvema.

[majkinetor]

[Configuration]
keypath=Any\location\you\would\like

I needed this so bad... I was too lasy to find it myself, since I always keep TC on the same path, but when I move around a little sometimes TC can't find the key.


thx Shipdog

2 beuvema

hope you can clarify it a bit

Shipdog already expalined. The best way is to use excelent fs plugin manager and to check "use commander path" variable.
Later, when U reinstall the system or move to another, just define mentioned environment variable to point to new path. U can even create batch script that will do that automaticaly

This is part of my script that handles this - you need MS setX.exe for this to work - which is executed in Utils folder. Utils contains Total Commander along with other goodies.

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  set UTILS=%CD%
  set X=%UTILS%\_Console\Rkit\SetX.exe 
  
  echo COMMANDER_PATH
  echo %UTILS%\Total Commander&echo.
  %X% COMMANDER_PATH "%UTILS%\Total Commander" -m

U will also set this in wincmd.ini under [config]
KeyPath=%COMMANDER_PATH%
InstallDir=%COMMANDER_PATH%

After this, if everything mentioned in this topic is set correctly, TC will work together with all plugins on any computer without installation (after U run this script)

[Sheepdog]

thx Shipdog

Would you mind to call me sheepdog ?

KeyPath=%COMMANDER_PATH%

That would be unnecessary.

from TC Help section 4.b wincmd.ini:

KeyPath= Path to the registration key (WITHOUT the file name!). As a default, Total Commander looks for the key in its own directory. Useful if key cannot be read over a LAN.

sheepdog

[majkinetor]

Would you mind to call me sheepdog ?

No, I don't mind.

thx SheepDog

What's in a name?
O, be some other name!

that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet

[majkinetor]

And by THAT, I don't mean that you are a rose....