Portable Group Explorer

It's pretty easy to install Group Explorer onto a USB drive as a portable copy, and this page describes how. How to do so varies a little from one operating system to another.

If you're on Windows:

• Just run the Group Explorer installer, and when it asks you to select a destination, pick the USB drive.
• This will keep not only the entire application there, but also its configuration file.
• Therefore any preferences you store (or notes or custom naming schemes) will be carried along on the USB drive.
• It may create desktop shortcuts and Start Menu entries that point to the application on your USB stick, but you can easily delete them or move them.

If you're on a Mac:

• Just drop the .app onto your USB drive. Very easy.
• However, on a Mac, Group Explorer puts its configuration file in ~/Library/Preferences/groupexplorer.config, so it doesn't reside on the USB stick and won't be carried around with you.
• If you want to fix this, you can make a script that runs Group Explorer with the command-line parameter -config <filename> to specify where the filename should be located. Something like this:
  /Volumes/NameOfUSBDrive/GroupExplorer.app/Contents/MacOS/GroupExplorer -config /Volumes/NameOfUSBDrive/ge.config

If you're on *nix:

• I'm not completely sure, but if you follow the directions here then I think you just need to place the binary and the Resources/ folder onto your USB drive, in the same folder as one another.
• Then regarding the config file, it defaults to ~/.groupexplorer, unless you run with the -config switch, as above.