However, if you wish, you may install it on a removable disk or flash drive that you can carry from one computer to another. These instructions will guide your setup of a removable drive containing everything you need to run FastPhotoTagger.
Installing Java, ImageMagick, VLC, and FFMPEG on the removable drive is optional. You can continue to use the versions installed on the computer's disk.
These are the steps for setting up your portable installation.
o Create a folder structure on the removable drive
o Install executable files
o Create fastphototagger_files.txt
o (Optional) Install Java, etc.
You can install everything in one folder or distribute the files in up to four folders, depending on the structure you prefer. The folders are:
o the jar folder, contains executable files
o the home folder, contains the program log file
o the settings folder, contains program settings
o the database folder contains the program database
Create these folders on the removable drive. Use any hierarchical structure you prefer. The sample shown here uses:
FastPhotoTagger (the jar folder)You must have write access to all of these. Once these are set up, you will need to reference the jar folder to execute FastPhotoTagger and the home folder to view the program log file. You will never directly reference the settings and database folders.
----Home
----Settings
----Database
Install FastPhotoTagger.exe, FastPhotoTagger.jar, exiftool.exe, and (optionally) dcraw.exe into the jar folder.
Create a text file named fastphototagger_files.txt.
Your jar folder will now look like this:
Now edit fastphototagger_files.txt to identify the location of the home, settings, and database folders. Add three lines, each with a word, a colon, and a full path to the folder. Example:
The paths should not contain a drive letter (E:, F:, etc.) and should start with a backslash, the root of the removable drive.
settings:\FastPhotoTagger\Settings
database:\FastPhotoTagger\Database
home:\FastPhotoTagger\Home
After you have run FastPhotoTagger, your folders will look like this:
o (Optional) Download Java. Start the installation but change the install location to your removable disk. For example, instead of installing to C:\Program Files, install to a Java folder at the root of your removable disk, e.g., \Java.
Then, in your jar folder, create a text file named "FastPhotoTagger.bat" containing one line:
Then you may execute FastPhotoTagger by double-clicking on FastPhotoTagger.bat.
start \Java\bin\javaw -jar FastPhotoTagger.jar
Install VLC, ImageMagick,
FFMPEG
o (Optional) Similarly, download and install these programs but change their install locations to the removable disk.
o Then follow the linking instructions in About FastPhotoTagger to create links in the jar folder. But do not use drive letters in the links, e.g.,
mklink vlc.exe "\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe"o If you're using versions already installed on the computer's disk, create links to them in the jar folder.
Some Notes
o FAT file systems on flash drives do not support the mklink command. Format your flash drive to use NTFS instead.
o Setting this up on Linux will be slightly different. Contact the author.