Portable mode

DataSuite supports Portable mode . This mode enables all data created and maintained by DataSuite to live near itself, so it can be moved around across environments.

Portable mode is supported on the ZIP download for Windows. See the Download page to find the correct .zip file for your platform.

Enable Portable mode

Windows

After unzipping the DataSuite download, create a data folder within DataSuite’s folder:

|- DataSuite-win32-x64-1.0.0
|   |- Suite.exe (or code executable)
|   |- data
|   |- bin
|   |  |- code
|   |  |- ...
|   |- ...

From then on, the data folder will be used to contain all DataSuite data, including session state, preferences, etc.

The data folder can be moved to other DataSuite installations. This is useful for updating your portable DataSuite version, in which case you can move the data folder to a newer extracted version of DataSuite.

Update Portable DataSuite

On Windows, you can update DataSuite by copying the data folder over to a more recent version of DataSuite.

Migrate to Portable mode

You can also migrate an existing installation to Portable mode.

Windows

1. Download the DataSuite ZIP distribution for your platform.
2. Create the data folder as above.
3. Copy the user data directory DataSuite to data and rename it to user-data:
   • Windows %APPDATA%\DataSuite

As an example, here’s the desired outcome on Windows:

|- DataSuite-win32-x64-1.84.2
|   |- DataSuite.exe (or suite executable)
|   |- data
|   |   |- user-data
|   |   |   |- ...
|   |- ...

TMP directory

By default, the default TMP directory is still the system one even in Portable Mode, since no state is kept there. If you want to also have your TMP directory within your portable directory, you can create an empty tmp directory inside the data folder. As long as a tmp directory exists, it will be used for TMP data.