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kiwix / kiwix-xulrunner

[ARCHIVED] Legacy Kiwix desktop solution for Windows/macOS/Linux
https://download.kiwix.org/release/kiwix-xulrunner/
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not durable when relocated to external drive #473

Closed ghost closed 5 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

I tried moving kiwix to a removable drive.

Kiwix essentially bricks itself when trying to list repos afterwards.

It's possible I'm just stupid, but if we could explain this process better, that would make working with an external (portable) kiwix installation dir a much better process.

Maybe the answer is better explanations, maybe the solution is a "migrate" function (for library data, or for the entire .kiwix folder), maybe the solution is a heal-button that resets all the woes, instead of me redownloading a clean install instead of my bricked one.

Ideas?

kelson42 commented 7 years ago

@Thetoxicarcade That should work, can you please give us the step-by-step procedure to reproduce the problem? I suspect you use Linux? Can you explain what means exactly "bricks itself"?

kelson42 commented 7 years ago

This issue was moved to kiwix/kiwix-android#34

ghost commented 7 years ago
  1. download kiwix
  2. run. installs to home dir.
  3. change path.
  4. move files to that path.
  5. kiwix restarts, once.
  6. further restarts means it cannot retrieve the libary, or download new library files.
kelson42 commented 7 years ago

Do you use Linux? Which one?