Portable version (or reading location presets from a file next to the restic-browser executable)

[KamikazeePL]

Is is possible to make portable version of restic browser?

[emuell]

The app itself already is portable. It's a single binary for all platforms which simply can be started from any location.

What's not portable right now is its app preferences (window state and presets).

But you could, as a workaround, write a little script which copies the local config file from a USB disk with Restic on it to the system where it's intended to run.

On Windows, the config files are at: %APPDATA%\org.restic.browser
On Linux it should be ~/.config/org.restic.browser
On macOS it should be ~/Preferences/org.restic.browser

[emuell]

We could also allow the presets.json file to be placed next to the Restic-Browser exe by testing for await exists('presets.json', { baseDir: BaseDirectory.Executable })) here:

https://github.com/emuell/restic-browser/blob/master/src/states/app-state.ts#L335

This way the window state wouldn't be portable, but the location presets would be, which I think is exactly what is needed here.

I am very busy with other projects at the moment. If anyone else wants to give this a try, this would be welcome.