Move from TC portable from external HD to C or switch to installed TC?

[kodepr]

Hi,

For years I have been using a registered TC Portable from an external HD (on drive K:\). I would now like to use TC from C:\ because I no longer want to use an external HD.
The portable version I am currently using is 10.00 64bit - I would now like to move on to the current version 11.51

• Should I move the TC Portable folder from K:\ to C:\ or should I start from scratch with a new installation on C:\?
• Are there any (dis)advantages to using an installed TC as opposed to a Portable TC?
• What is the most efficient way to get my settings, plugins, ... from my current Portable TC to the new (portable or installed) TC on C:\?
• Any dos and don'ts I should be aware of?
• Any order I should respect in the steps to follow?

Thanks in advance!

[Horst.Epp]

If you have a real portable TC installation
just copy the whole TC tree into the new dir,
but not on the root of C: of course.
Make a dir like C:\tools\TC and copy into this.
After this, update to the new TC version, selecting the new home as target.
All settings will be saved.

[kodepr]

Hi,
I did what Horst.Epp advised and it worked, thanks!

But regarding ...

If you have a real portable TC installation

... it looks like the paths used in some of my toolbars, buttons on toolbars, em_ commands, ... are not really "portable".
I would like to correct that, but in order to do so I have a question:

Help says ...

• %variablename:~5,7% skips 5 characters and uses the following 7. Negative numbers count from the end of the environment variable.
• %COMMANDER_PATH% The Total Commander directory

Now ...

• If my %COMMANDER_PATH% is "K:\Program Files\Total Commander Portable\"
• If I also have other portable software in "K:\Program Files\Portable Program A\", "K:\Program Files\Portable Program B\", ...

... what should I write in %COMMANDER_PATH:~x,y% if I want to allow K:\Program Files to be anything, so that I can move my Total Commander Portable\, Portable Program A\, Portable Program B\, ... folders anywhere?

• Moving all of them to "D:\Program Files\" should work
• Moving all of them to "C:\Users\MyName\Documents\FD\_Tools\Program Files\" should work

So, probably in %COMMANDER_PATH:~x,y% I want

• ~x to count backwards, starting from the end (I guess ~-25 should keep K:\Program Files\)
• y to count everything that then remains from %COMMANDER_PATH%, backwards from the end or forward from the start

Questions

• what can I put for y to keep any number of remaining characters?
• can %COMMANDER_PATH:~x,y% be used for paths to anything in Total Commander (Bars, em_ commands, ...) ?

[Dalai]

Just use

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"%COMMANDER_PATH%\..\Portable Program X\some.exe"

to refer to a program on the same level as the TC directory. No need to use a substring.

[kodepr]

Thanks Dalai!

Can I use

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"%COMMANDER_PATH%\..\

for anything in Total Commander (also in paths to Bars, paths in em_ commands, ...) or is it not allowed in certain situations?

[Dalai]

Such semi-relative paths should work pretty much anywhere. I suggest to just try it.