For me it was still creating a data directory in my User directory, and forgetting all my subscriptions etc.Īnyway today I found this alternative edit for the config.ini file.
The problem before was that the solution given in the FAQ on the RSSOwl site didn't really work.
Rssowl java portable#
I don't know if anybody is still following this topic, but I finally have a fully working portable version of RSSOwl. But I really really like Owl so I'm sticking with it for now. Naturally you still need JRE to be installed, and I'm really thinking of just using QuiteRSS too as it is a great prog and a lot lighter and faster than Owl.
Rssowl java Pc#
I'm not completely sure about registry entries as I only discovered this solution today so haven't tested it very thoroughly as yet, but MJRegWatcher didn't seem to pick up on anything, and neither has a search for "Owl" using Nirsoft's RegScanner.Īlso I had problems making this work on my desktop office PC today, but I've been having all kinds of problems on that PC anyway trying to get CIS6 to work properly (grrr.) and I suspect it is preventing RSSOwl from creating the new directory properly, but back at home on my laptop it seems to be fine - I've rebooted a couple of times now and Owl is working great with no sign of any files/folders being created in my User directory or anywhere other than where I've told it to.
Rssowl java windows#
It's done what I want, which is to make it a self-contained app so that I shouldn't lose all my feeds and prefs every time I wipe/restore my Windows partition, but it isn't strictly fully portable as it isn't a relative path so you'd either have to work that out or change the path in config.ini before running it from a new location. It's about a third of the way down under "How do I specify the location of the profile folder?". I don't know if this helps at all, but I use the portable version of RSSOwl from their own site and have relocated the prefs and feeds folder by following the instructions on their forum here.
opml file that formed the template for the first run of RSSOwl. The second 2 FileWrite commands don't work properly (I think), and "jopt" was my folder for storing a generic. I took a personal shot at RSSOwl at some point, and I'll post my launcher.ini file so that it might help you:įile=%PAL:DataDir%\profile\.rssowl2\backup.opmlĬonfiguration=%PAL:AppDir%\rssowl\configuration Admittedly, it's not that hard to make one portable now, but it's still a little bit of a problem. The last issue is that, yes, it's a Java application. I forget if those values are useful in any practical way, but they need to be dealt with.
The second thing to note is that RSSOwl uses the registry by itself, because it's an Eclipse-based application. There are ways of specifying an alternate browser location, but the database is not text editor friendly, so dynamically assigning the custom browser to something like Chrome or Firefox portable is hard, if not impossible. The first of which is that the built-in browser uses IE, which pretty much stops it from being fully portable immediately. There's a few problems with making the application "completely portable". For now, I think the best option would be to try to use the current (outdated) version here, which is the one I assume you were talking about, and put the files from the newest version of RSSOwl in there.
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