#CALIBRE PORTABLE UPDATE UPDATE#
#CALIBRE PORTABLE UPDATE FULL#

I'd appreciate it if some of you could test this a bit before I release it on Friday. Just edit appinfo.ini to change the version number, replace the Calibre folder with the new version and run Installer to create the installer and you're done. Here's a link to the PortableApps installer version of the Calibre 0.8.68 (haven't gotten around to downloading 0.8.69 yet).Ĭreating an updated installer is simple. For example, calibre-portable-0.8.68.zip is 59MB while repackaged to 7zip with LZMA compression, it's just 41MB. Saves quite a bit of bandwidth over normal zip. If you won't consider that, then perhaps you can consider using LZMA compression if you're going the executable route. Also, if you have multiple libraries, it uses fixed paths for the additional libraries. If you rename it, it'll just keep spawning the folder. calibre-portable.exe requires a library named Calibre Library.

I do urge you to consider the PortableApps version since it's a bit more robust.

#CALIBRE PORTABLE UPDATE FULL#

There's no need to have a full NSIS installer for this, just a few hundred lines of C code and a bundled unzip routine should do the trick, I'll cook up something this week. Run Calibre from the flash drive as normal and the updated version will start and your existing library and settings will still be there.

No need for the Calibre Library and Calibre Settings folders as you retain your existing folders.

#CALIBRE PORTABLE UPDATE UPDATE#

We tried the instructions on the 'portable' update website but met with problems about the local path being too long (>59 chars), so we tried the following method which worked better.ĭownload the new portable update zipfile, extract and copy across to your flash drive only the Calibre folder and the calibre-portable.exe file, overwriting existing flash drive files as necessary. Our library is quite big (>30,000 books) and it was a pest to transfer to and synchronise with our slow laptop when we holidayed, so we opted to use the portable version on a big (64GB) flash drive instead. We are new to these forums, but have happily been using Calibre on a desktop pc for ages feeding a pair of Kindles.

Calibre portable update