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Xenon Portable File Manager - Portable Associations!
raybeere:
I just discovered, over at Portable Apps, an interesting new tool they haven't had on offer before. It is known as Xenon Portable File Manager, and it allows you to set file associations, so when you click on a file in Xenon, it opens with the associated program. Even with the limitation (which seems unavoidable, really: any portable associations would have to be limited to the app they were set in) it looks like a great tool. It is a pretty barebones file manager, but for portable use it looks more than good enough. And it has the one feature I've wanted ever since I first put files on a stick. :D
As an added bonus, if you go to the developer's site, http://www.mi3soft.info/?page=software.portable, they also offer IcoFX - which, for anyone who doesn't know it, is a great free icon editor - in a portable wrapper. I'm off to load up my USB stick with a few more apps. ;D Since prices are falling, it may be time to pick up a few larger capacity sticks, ;D although 2 GB will hold a lot more than you'd expect (all my most essential apps, vital information, and manuscripts will fit on 2 GB with room to spare).
fenixproductions:
2raybeere
Portable edition of IcoFX can be downloaded from official site. I would rather not take a risk getting it from different place.
ewemoa:
I hope a slight tangent will be tolerated :)
One of the things I had considered for the FARR Akete plugin is to try to work w/ the file associations stored by various file managers -- in Xenon's case, there is a file named "assoc.ini" which seems to contain relevant-looking information. So far I haven't ended up using Xenon very much -- and I'm interested in knowing how people find it. IIUC, some other file explorers allow one to have portable file associations, e.g. XYPlorer:
http://www.xyplorer.com/tour/index.php?page=pom
http://88.191.26.34/XYwiki/index.php/Portable_File_Associations
May be folks know of some others...
fenixproductions:
2ewemoa
You can give a shot to this tool:
http://clef.usb.googlepages.com/cafe
PS. I know I saw somewhere version with few bug fixes but I can't find a link....
ewemoa:
@fenixproductions: thanks for contributing :)
C.A.F.E. is something I put off looking at because I wasn't sure if it was actually going to get developed further (and I don't communicate well in French). When I looked into portable file associations a bit back, I had noticed that there seemed to be a number of efforts in this area, and I've just been waiting to see if any of them actually releases something that is usable...
Another one which looked to me like it might be stalled was PortableFileAssociator.
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