What makes Blender work in portable mode is the presence of the 'config' folder inside the version folder inside the executable folder. Like this: E:\Blender\blender.exe and E:\Blender\2.79\config\ You need to create that E:\Blender\2.79\config\ folder manually to make it run in portable mode. You can then copy your…
I upgraded today to Blender 2..79a and it turns out that it references the same 2.79 roaming folder on windows, which makes it seamless for me. Tip: If you want to locate the roaming folder quickly run %appdata% in the address bar (Win + E) or in the run command (Win + R) All addons and configurations are stored in there
what i do is fire up the new version once so it creates its preferences folder structure, then remove the contents and replace with those from my previous install. i've been doing this since 2.74, no need to reconfigure anything, not had any issues. on windows it should be located in the user folder under…
@RN Thanks. I noticed there are some addons that don't go to the roaming folder so need to be copied to the portable config and addon folder. That was very helpful, @renderhjs Very true. I tried it out. Updated to the newest blender version. It was just like you said. Thanks for the shortcut tip. @thomasp Ok thanks. I am…
just to add to my earlier comment - i encountered a behaviour where blender apparently needs to register the existence of a preferences folder before reading from it. simply copying the whole directory over without running blender first once so it could create it yielded the result that it still started up with its…