How to manage plugins and addons with OBS in portable mode?

[Xuzo]

I heard that by adding --portable suffix to .exe installation you can make OBS portable, is that true?

Now if so, what about pluggins, for example, the background removal filter and the Droid Cam pluggins are .exe file that need to be installed, they go into program files by default...so won't be portable.

So what is the best way to deal with this, can OBS portable be truly the same as if installed in C: drive?

 

[koala]

As default, OBS expects plugins in the directory structure where obs64.exe is located. How to deal with portable mode or custom directories, see https://obsproject.com/kb/plugins-guide (at the bottom).

 

[Xuzo]

As default, OBS expects plugins in the directory structure where obs64.exe is located. How to deal with portable mode or custom directories, see https://obsproject.com/kb/plugins-guide (at the bottom).

Thanks but it doesn't work for pluggins like background removal, and installer has no option to change destination, so OBS says this:

"If you install OBS Studio to a custom location or use portable mode, you will need to change the installer's target folder to your custom location's data/plugins folder."

But I haven't found a way to do this with installer

 

[qhobbes]

Do the background removal filter and Droid Cam pluggin .exe files that need to be installed allow for portable installation? Do the plugins allow you to specify a path to the .exe files?

 

[Suslik V]

Plugins that supports portable mode usually distributed not only as .exe but also as archive (.zip, .7z) file. Users unpacking this archive and places all files to corresponding folders of portable installation of OBS. This should be done manually.

Some features of OBS (like Game Capture plugin, yeah it's plugin, built-in but plugin) are designed only to be run from special place of your PC (because of security and permissions limitation). So, if you run two different versions of OBS on the same PC - the newer OBS will overwrite old code that was left from old OBS. Yes, some plugins can write files to your PC without your knowledge.