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Old 08-27-2019, 08:05 AM   #10
serr
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Originally Posted by LeftyStrings View Post
This is somewhat off-topic here but I am curious if these portable installs were a selling point to anyone else-?
Not really. It's a way to quickly isolate and test a version I suppose.
As far as the idea of a portable install that you can take with you to any computer... That would be more about your 3rd party plugin installs. Reaper itself is just a quick install either way. And the import/export config feature lets you switch between configs quickly and neatly already (letting you "isolate" things as you please).

Plugins are installed as a library to your OS - not as an "add-on" to any particular DAW app. So you'd have to "portable install" those plugins. (Have fun with the more crude installers like Waves that don't play nice with ANY non-standard install location!) So that would kind of go against the grain of the portable install.

Then there's all the new gatekeeper OS features that are finally being turned on by default more these days. You'd have to disable that stuff to install to other than your Applications folder. Lots of moving the mountain. Security on the Applications folder and the System Extensions folder isn't exactly a bad idea. Stopping casual workarounds like installing an app to your Desktop or Downloads folder because you forgot your OS password isn't a bad idea either!

Cool troubleshooting feature for sure but would be a PITA for normal use unless something was setup kind of odd with the OS for it to make sense.
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