stefankueng
Feature Request: Provide as a Zip file or Portable Application
Instead of installing to my system it would be nice to just be able to unzip and go
@PortableApps has GrepWin in their suite.
Could you work with them to offer BowPad and CryptSync?
This is a must for me. At work I don't have admin privileges but still want to decrypt a Dropbox folder
I'm guessing that this is never going to get implemented. If anyone knows a good alternative that is portable, please message me.
@luketucker I have used this to successfully extract many different programs from their install files... you may want to give it a try to do it with CryptSync
https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2
You can extract the executables from the .msi installer simply using 7-Zip. And they should work without admin privileges.
However, it won't be truly portable, because CryptSync saves config info (including passwords) in the registry.
@cfbao , Could it be configured to use the local folder instead of the registry for Passwords? Could it work in a mode it doesn't save password but ask them per session?
@RoyiAvital If by "configure" you mean without changing the current source code/executables, then no.
Well, extracting from the msi file and running with /tray option works pretty well. There are some niggles but it's good enough. Thanks.
...just extract (or install) the msi anywhere (like a test-VM), then a) create a file "_RunMe.bat" in the CryptSync folder b) put
- CryptSync.exe
- gpg.exe
- iconv.dll
- _RunMe.bat in a *.zip and you're good to go.
Run _RunMe.bat to start CryptSync. You'll have to manually configure CryptSync each run (not even importing a saved config (*.reg) does work, see #35 )
Unfortunately CryptSync stores its config in the registry, so you need to clean up after you're done (which is why you start CryptSync using _RunMe.bat).
HTH!
_RunMe.bat:
@echo off
CryptSync.exe
echo.
echo.
echo.
echo Press CTRL-C (break) to keep CryptSyncs config
echo.
echo or
echo.
pause
reg delete HKCU\Software\CryptSync /f
FWIW: Dunno about its practical use for a portable solution (make sure to encrypt the *.bin files when using that method!) but have a look at https://github.com/stefankueng/CryptSync/issues/35#issuecomment-925509019 for my solution to save/restore CryptSyncs config. Takes me ~1 minute to restore my config that way.
P.S. Make sure to delete the config after finising ;)