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[Eric Sidnell]

Hi,

 

Does anyone out there have any experience of installing e-Sword as a portable application - i.e. one that can be run from an external drive without having to install on the host PC/ lap-top?

 

I currently have a personal lap-top (Lenovo Ideapad G580 under Windows 8) and a professional lap-top (Lenovo Thinkpad W520 under Windows 7). I have e-Sword installed on both - but each of them references the files structures and resources installed on each machine. And of course  my personal notes are potentially different on each machine unless I copy 'My Documents/e-Sword' onto an external drive and then synch on each machine.

 

To remove this effort, what I am looking for is the ability to install e-Sword as a portable app on a USB drive (e.g. thumb drive) so that all I have to do is plug the device into whichever lap-top I have with me and not have to worry about synchronising between the different machines.

 

So has anybody done this? If so, I would be grateful for any guidance as to how I could achieve this.

 

Many thanks in anticipation,

 

Eric

[Tim Butterfield]

E-sword itself needs to be installed on the hard drive not the flash drive (as far as I know, I'm sure someone will correct me if there is another way.  However, the resources can be on the flash drive.

 

Select the Options tab up top of the e-Sword window, select resources, at the bottom of that window is a location option so you can "tell" e-sword the directory where it can find the resources which would include your personal documents.

[exscentric]

Though not as nice a program there is a Bible program set up for portable apps that might be of interest at:  http://portableapps.com/forums

 

I'd think Baunllaw answer would be easier than learning a new program and putting up with less resources but it might be an option for you.

[DoctorDaveT]

theWord Bible software runs from a thumbdrive; it would be an excellent option. The total resource library for theWord is very similar to eSword's.

[BH.]

e-Sword can not be a portable app because of the way it uses the registry. That said, it can be installed on both machines, and set the resource location to be your thumb drive. This is set under Options+Resource...+Location.  

 

You can also probably install it to your thumb drive, doing this on BOTH machines.  You will still probably need to set the resource location to be the thumb drive.  

 

The app will not be portable, in that you would need to install it on each machine you move your thumb drive to, but again on that machine, you install it to the thumb drive and set the resource location.  

 

An alternative would be sign up for a service such as Dropbox, but that would require Internet access to say in sync.

[davejonescue]

http://www.cameyo.com/ This may be a pain in the butt, because you would have to install e-sword, then all your resources, to build an app, at the same time, once you build the app, you cannot add resources. But if you download all the resources you want, save the files, follow the instructions for cameyo, you will have an app that you can run from a flashdrive. I hope this helps. I have done this with ISA and it works perfect. God Bless

[davejonescue]

If this is the case that the resources can be separate from the program and yet be used together ( like having the program on your computer, and the resources on a flash drive) than making a portable app with Cameyo may have just got a lot easier. It would probably be better to do the full install, program, and resources when building your app, but Cameyo, I believe turns your portable hardware into a hardrive, or something like that. Pretty much it makes programs you usually have to do full installs with, into apps. This is all theoretical, but if you have a little time you might want to give it a shot. You could make an app out of just the program (E-Sword) and keep your resources in a separate folder on the same Flash Drive. If both can be separate and run at the same time, you could have all you need on one flash drive, but in seperate folders. I don't see why this couldn't work, theoretically. Like I said, I am going to attempt it. I am going to try to download as many resources as I can, and do a full install when building my app. Ill keep you guys posted. God Bless

 

Also. Once the app is built. You can simply copy and paste to transfer, if it works, to give to your friends.

[John Derosa]

davejonescue did you get this to work ? I want to share with my friends , but dont want them to have to go through installation of each resorce .