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DickN wrote:I searched the manual for "portable settings" and didn't find it.

FYI: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/pref ... l#portable

The way that I located it in the manual was to click on "Preferences" in the "menu" column on the left of the index page, which took me to this page: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/preferences.html then "Portable Settings" is listed near the top of the page as a link.
The main index page is a good place to start when searching - even the picture of the Audacity interface is clickable and there are links to most of Audacity's features.
Hope that helps.

Thanks, Steve!

DickN wrote:

Gale Andrews wrote:If no, the answer is to create a "Portable Settings" folder in the folder for each version of Audacity...

I searched the manual for "portable settings" and didn't find it.

Steve told you where to find it, but we badly need a search box in the online Audacity Manual.

Meantime, you could bookmark this: https://www.google.co.uk/search?&q=tool ... tyteam.org and replace "toolbars" in the Google search box with whatever you are searching for.

DickN wrote: So I just put pluginregistry.cfg and pluginsettings.cfg in a folder named PortableSettings, and they get used instead of the ones in appdata, right? Are these the only files I need in this folder?

If the "Portable Settings" folder exists, Audacity will create fresh copies there of all its *.cfg settings files.

I was guessing you would want to start from scratch, register only the plugins you want and build up fresh settings as you use the plugins.

But yes if you copy existing .cfg files from %APPDATA%\Audacity to the "Portable Settings" folder, Audacity will use those files.

Gale

Got it - thanks!

When I tried it I replaced 'toolbars' with 'portable%20settings' because I thought spaces would be a problem, but Firefox put a space in the address string anyway. So it works either way.
Not that it matters here, but replacing the 2nd 'http' with 'https' also works. The cached copy from Google uses https either way.

In lieu of a search box, which would be equally valuable in a local copy of the manual, I will write a .bat file to search the local copy. I'll share it here. I will use FINDSTR just because it comes with windows, but GREP users will have no trouble changing the switches.

Topic about .bat file split to http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 46&t=92596

DickN wrote:a search box, which would be equally valuable in a local copy of the manual

Indeed, but that is likely to be more difficult than adding a search box for online.

If we used PDF or Microsoft Compiled HTML - which has some variants for the other platforms - it would not be a problem.

DickN wrote:I will write a .bat file to search the local copy. I'll share it here. I will use FINDSTR just because it comes with windows, but GREP users will have no trouble changing the switches.

Thanks!


Gale