Easy to use portable Bitcoin client

[Tachikoma]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I ran Electrum-1.7.2-portable.exe and it created some (settings?) files inside C:\Users...
That's not what I expect from a portable app, it should be all contained in the same folder as the executable.

Could you please create an issue here and supply as much information as possible. Which files it created and such.

[DarkHyudrA]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I ran Electrum-1.7.2-portable.exe and it created some (settings?) files inside C:\Users...
That's not what I expect from a portable app, it should be all contained in the same folder as the executable.

You are probably talkin about the blockchain header and the electrum.dat

[Tachikoma]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I ran Electrum-1.7.2-portable.exe and it created some (settings?) files inside C:\Users...
That's not what I expect from a portable app, it should be all contained in the same folder as the executable.

You are probably talkin about the blockchain header and the electrum.dat

If that's the case and the reporter does not want that use the -w flag. 

[michaelg]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I ran Electrum-1.7.2-portable.exe and it created some (settings?) files inside C:\Users...
That's not what I expect from a portable app, it should be all contained in the same folder as the executable.

You are probably talkin about the blockchain header and the electrum.dat

I think so, yes. I've deleted them already.

All I want is a folder with the executable and all other (settings...) files in it. That's what a portable program should be like.

[Tachikoma]

Maybe I'm missing something, but I ran Electrum-1.7.2-portable.exe and it created some (settings?) files inside C:\Users...
That's not what I expect from a portable app, it should be all contained in the same folder as the executable.

You are probably talkin about the blockchain header and the electrum.dat

I think so, yes. I've deleted them already.

All I want is a folder with the executable and all other (settings...) files in it. That's what a portable program should be like.

We are thinking of ways to safely do that. For now just boot with -w or create a bat-file that does it for you automatically and it will work as you expect.

[bajanboost]

How is the security on a portable client like that?

[jago25_98]

Can anyone have a cursory look over the source code and point out the changes that were needed for the portable version? Is the official celctrum portable build ready yet? (can't see in the main download dir)

[Tachikoma]

Can anyone have a cursory look over the source code and point out the changes that were needed for the portable version? Is the official celctrum portable build ready yet? (can't see in the main download dir)

It's only available for windows:
http://electrum.org/download.html

On any other system you can just use the -p flag.

How is the security on a portable client like that?

The codebase is the same; it just encourages using Electrum on a computer that might not be your own. Which is a bad practice for all the obvious reasons.