Saving profiles or scenes in 31.0.3 portable

[ebpatton]

I've put a blank portable_mode file in the main directory. I can see the software is opening in what I presume is in fact portable mode, since the interface is "new" (contains nothing I've done previously).

So I seem to have to set everything up from scratch the way I had it. Fine. But no matter what I do, I can't save any of my work, whether I try to export a scene or a profile.

How do I save anything in portable mode?

 

[ebpatton]

Apparently I have to run OBS as administrator. Ok, but now it's prompting me each time asking if I want to allow the program to make changes to the computer. Can this be disabled so the program just runs in admin mode without prompting me? Or is it possible to make OBS save properly WITHOUT running in admin mode?

 

[ebpatton]

I had this working, and now it's not. I want to be able to have two instances of OBS running at the same time, with one scene on one and the second scene on the other. I had it working, then I deleted the portable_mode file to go back and check some old settings. I then re-added the file to the root directory, but I lost the ability to run two scenes on two instances. I even uninstalled and reinstalled everything, and it's still not working.

Can anyone advise?

 

[ebpatton]

I can uninstall and reinstall and get the software to work for a while, but inevitably it loses the ability to run a different scene on each of two instances. I would like to just go back to the last version of OBS Studio before the change was made that made this so difficult. Can anyone tell me (a) which version that was, and (b) where I might find it?

Thanks.

 

[ebpatton]

I have gone back to OBS Studio 30.2.3, which is much more agreeable for my purposes. I understand OBS is freeware and I'm getting what I paid for, but I am not certain why the developers could not more easily build the functionality that they already had into their updated design. Asking end users to make changes and additions and do google searches and watch videos just to end up with something that doesn't work as well as the older versions doesn't really make sense to me.

The developers may have perceived they had a bug or some sort of security risk in what they'd written, but that bug (or whatever it was) was essential for my purposes. Without it, OBS has very little utility for me. I would hope that. at some point in the future, the developers might find a more user-friendly, reliable, and consistent way to enhance the user experience without what certainly seems to me to be no little bit of unnecessary folderol.

 

[prgmitchell]

It just sounds like you were trying to run OBS in portable mode out of a directory that you didn't have write permissions to like your program files directory. You'd want to install your portable copy of OBS somewhere that you do have write permissions to, like your user profile directory perhaps in your Documents folder.