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[Stevan Pettit <781839@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'd like to start work on this little project.

For now, what I see to start is a directory structure

RM Drive:
     OpenLPPortable/
          OpenLPPortable.exe (start-up program)
          Data/
              Settings/
                   OpenLPPortable.ini
              (Data directories)
          OpenLP/
               (Executables)


OpenLPPortable.exe will invoke OpenLP.exe -p

OpenLP will read the  OpenLPPortable.ini file and create a "settings file" with setApplicationName(u'OpenLPPortable')
The data path will be pointed to the RM drive.

When OpenLP closes, the settings will be re-written to the INI file on
the RM drive.

I have "tested" this and in theory, it works.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/781839

Title:
  make openlp portable

Status in OpenLP - Worship Presentation Software:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Openlp should be able to run as a 'portable app, off a USB flash drive
  without the need to install it.

  However, for know there are technical limits in pyinstaller which
  prevents this feature to work properly.

  App created by Pyinstaller fails to run from a directory containing
  non ASCII characters.

  For next major release (version 1.6) it is planned to fix this.

  Until this is bug of pyinstaller is fixed, I think it is not worth to
  implement this feature.

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