[sylpheed:31221] Re: Ack? What's this?

[Jeff Needle]

> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:18:00 -0400, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>
>> My experience has been that portable apps don't store anything
>> outside the application folder itself.
>
> I'm not sure what type of "portable" Sylpheed is considered to be.
> A proper application should store the application data independently for
> each user, except if explicitly required (configured) to share a common
> data resource. Also the application itself may run on different
> operating systems, but share the same application data area (local or
> network).
>
> Perhaps you should configure the mailbox (i.e. messages data) to be
> physically located in your portable device.
>
> Also, at least on Windows, once the application was once installed
> (using the installer version), each subsequent update may be done by
> simply overwriting the old files (using the .zip archive version).
>
> Cristi

Thanks.  I'll have to look into how to change all those locations.  In my 
mind, "portable" means that you can copy the app folder to a removable 
device, move it to another computer, and it will run with no reference to 
the hard drive.  This is pretty standard in today's nomenclature.

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