I bumped into a spot of weirdness earlier today.
I was running SSC from a thumbdrive, copied from another portable install. The latter is always G: so SSC gave me an error about not being able to find that drive to drop screenshots into. Recovered nicely: created a screenshots folder and suchlike and wrote the latter's address into the settings. Thing is, it set a drive letter on it. So I looked in the help for a useful current drive variable and didn't find anything, so I just deleted the E: and hoped that'd work.
I was documenting a delete and reinstall process at the time, and the final part of the delete process was a reboot.
On SSC's next start, it seemed to be looking at the correct folder, but it was empty. Odd. No matter; finish what I'm doing, worry about it later...
...so eventually, I'd discovered that the initial folder it had created was
E:\PortableApps\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots
and when I'd told it to use
\PortableApps\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots
it had created
E:\PortableApps\ScreenshotCaptor\PortableApps\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots
instead of continuing to use the initially-created folder.
So... dear mouser, please can I have some portable-friendly variables I can use in path specs in SSC configs, please? (Or if there are some already, can they please have a prominent bit of the Help file so I can find them when I need them?)
Er, and although I hate to bring this up, I found this in the help:
"Miscelaneous Tips and Tricks"
Should, of course, be "Miscellaneous"
