Several installations of 2.53 in parallel

[Klaus]

Good afternoon,

is there a possibility to install the Salamander twice with two different registry keys?
I know it is possible to start the Salamander with the -C option, but what I want is to have two separated Salamanders saving their current configuration when leaving the program. The -C option only overwrites the one and only registrykey!-(.

Thanks for your ideas
Klaus

[SelfMan]

A not so nice workaround would be to create a new user account and run the Salamander with "run as...". This way is the registrity naturally separated.

[Klaus]

Hello SelfMan,

did not think at this solution even if it is, as you already said, not the smartest one. At least for two different Salamanders it is quite handy.
The best would be to have a situation as I had when 2.51, 2.52, 2.53 beta and 2.53 were installed. You get used to it having one Salamander as private, one as professional, one for documents, and so on.

Thanks
Klaus

[SelfMan]

Hello SelfMan,

did not think at this solution even if it is, as you already said, not the smartest one. At least for two different Salamanders it is quite handy.
The best would be to have a situation as I had when 2.51, 2.52, 2.53 beta and 2.53 were installed. You get used to it having one Salamander as private, one as professional, one for documents, and so on.

Thanks
Klaus

I've never had the need for multiple instances of Salamander with separate configurations. And I am working with Salamander for years. Still there might be a place for configuration profiles, where a command line switch could be used. Like common work vs work over terminal server/remote desktop. As for your kind of use - I would point my focus toward "Hot paths" and a custom "User menu". I for example use the user menu for quick access to the network shares on remote servers. I was tired to enter the IP addresses trough Shift+F7 every time, so I've modified the user menu.

[Klaus]

I've never had the need for multiple instances of Salamander with separate configurations. And I am working with Salamander for years. Still there might be a place for configuration profiles, where a command line switch could be used. Like common work vs work over terminal server/remote desktop. As for your kind of use - I would point my focus toward "Hot paths" and a custom "User menu". I for example use the user menu for quick access to the network shares on remote servers. I was tired to enter the IP addresses trough Shift+F7 every time, so I've modified the user menu.

I do use Hot Paths and the User Menus as well. But I use my computer for many things like work, photo, film and music treatment and database development. For every activity I use different directories and different programs (that means different menus). If I put everything in one User Menu this would be probably over charged. Also the ten entries for the Hot Paths are not sufficient for me. The point is that you can start the Salamander with a reg file using the -C parameter, but this overwrites the current registry key meaning the current setting.
I thing the best will be that I put this into the wished features list.

Cheers
Klaus

[SelfMan]

Don't worry, I don't want to downplay your usage skills.
Like I said, it would be nice to have a "profile" switch.

@Jan, how much work would this require?

Imagine that "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Altap\Altap Salamander x,xx]" would be default to maintain the backwards compatibility as till now and you could have a new key "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Altap\Altap Salamander\Profiles]
where "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Altap\Altap Salamander\Profiles\<profile name>]" would get the profile name from command line and if not specified a default configuration would be loaded i.e. "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Altap\Altap Salamander\Build\2.53]".

You could also use this location for a configuration backup. Meaning - before write, create a backup of the config. This way a config-undo would be posible too.

[Jan Rysavy]

It would be possible, but we are really weak in predicting needed time
I guess a week or two of work.

[Klaus]

Thanks for your help so far.
So I will wait if you will include this feature in a future version.

[therube]

On a slight different tangent ...

INI files vs. Windows Registry, Portable ...

U3

salaPortable

Portabel SS needs Portabel Settings

portable SS

Seem to recall some threads where seemingly the person did have some sort of portable version working?

[oxman]

I want this feature too, its a must have for this application, I'll buy it with this feature