Where are the settings for FAR Manager v1,v2 stored

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vfclists
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Where are the settings for FAR Manager v1,v2 stored

Post by vfclists »

Where are the settings and customisations for FarManager stored - I would like to be able to edit them in a text file and carry the program about with me on a USB stick?
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tomyam
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Re: Where are the settings for farmanager stored

Post by tomyam »

The settings are stored in windows registry. See SaveSettings.bat and RestoreSettings.bat in FAR's directory for the details.

I don't think FAR can be run from a USB stick without an installation. It is a feature that I hope, very much, to have in a future version of FAR :D
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Re: Where are the settings for farmanager stored

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It can, and you will even get your settings if you run RestoreSettings.bat first.
vfclists
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Re: Where are the settings for farmanager stored

Post by vfclists »

Will it run even when it can't be installed on a system because you don't have admin rights, such as an internet cafe?

Will it be also able to apply the stored settings?
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Re: Where are the settings for farmanager stored

Post by pepak »

Yes and yes*.

*) Limited to settings in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. In my configuration, only a few options are stored in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE: - MultiArc archiver paths
- Registration data
Everything else is in HKCU.
wolf33
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Re: Where are the settings for farmanager stored

Post by wolf33 »

vfclists wrote:Where are the settings ...
carry the program about with me on a USB stick?
You can use the newer open sorce version 2.0.809.
http://farmanager.com/nightly.php?l=en
It runs stable.
There are no entrys in the registry and it runs from the installation folder with far.exe
twodev
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Re: Where are the settings for farmanager stored

Post by twodev »

i would recommend everyone switching to v2.x.

however:
wolf33 wrote:There are no entrys in the registry
check again...

hkcu/software/far2
far2 plugins: format menu (discuss) | editor tools (discuss); far2 tools: lngtool
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