Portable Adium1.3.2r4.0

Name: Portable Adium
Rating: 0 (5 reviews)

14 February 2009

Adium packaged for portable devices.

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Portable Adium is the multiprotocol Adium instant messaging client that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more, packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 50 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your conctact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.

Drag "Portable Adium" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 50 MB of free space.
Clicking "Portable Adium" will open Adium from your portable device, wait a while before Adium start.
If a local copy of Adium is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data:
- You can copy your user preferences folder to Portable Adium when "Copy preferences" window asks you. So, if you wish to use your conctact list, dock icons, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users you already have on your computer, just click "Yes" when prompted.
Adium application, preference file and profile folder are inside the bundle:
Portable Adium.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Support Forum - Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our Portable Apps OS X support forum

What's new in Portable Adium

Version 1.3.2r4.0:

Adium updated to 1.3.2

4 Reviews of Portable Adium

It won't let me copy the folder to my USB thumbdrive, says "one or more items can't be copied". Maybe not quite ready for primetime.

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I don't understand why developers over at Adium spend time working on this kind of thing while the "normal" version of Adium still doesn't support webcam! I don't think there should be anything else on their minds right now... Not having a decent, multi-protocol (MSN, AOL, Hotmail, Yahoo, ICQ, Live, Gtalk, MySpace...) program on mac that also supports webcams is the only thing what makes me feel limited today as a mac owner. Besides, getting portable versions of apps isn't exactly something I long for all day or have any use for. I'm sorry if this comment hurts someone's feelings, or if I come out as annoying, but that's how I feel.

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GGore: That's your mac behaving, not the software. It may be that you need to do a repair permissions (google it) SIXTYK: I believe the only thing involved, is changing the location for saving your profile from ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0 to //[insert portable device]/Adium. By just copying or zipping and copying Adium, you would only be able to open the program, and would lose chat history, scripts, etc. This is the reason. It is not just about being able to copy it from one computer to another. In that case it is a lot easier to just copy the software. I believe this is the reason, but I haven't even tried the software.

This is an honest question and not an attempt to badmouth. I am sorry if it appears otherwise. I guess I am just curious as to what is involved in making these applications "portable." Many of these portable programs have been posted by the same developer but not the developer(s) who actually created Adium, Firefox, etc. I understand that the source code for most of these programs are publicly available under Open Source. I'm not accusing the developer(s) of any sort of infringement. I simply wish to understand what is involved in making these programs portable. Are files packaged differently? Are there changes to the programming itself? As I said, I'm just curious.

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