HI,

I've purchased portable Ultraedit app and have been creating templates in my laptop with Windows 7 OS. After a while I need to use my templates in my office laptop running on Windows XP so I did plugged my external drive into my office PC. It was great because I was able to access all my templates. But when I plugged my external drive back to my laptop running on Windows 7 OS, the templates were gone missing. Heart attaced!!! I then tried to plug again my external drive into my office laptop and found that the templates are there.

Has anybody had this experience? Kindly post how can I make my templates reside in the external drive? It seems that the template has now lived in the XP OS.

Many thanks
Carl

I'm not using UltraEdit Portable. Perhaps another user using UEP can help better than I. Nevertheless, I give some hints in hope they are helpful.

Smart templates management explains how the templates are managed by UltraEdit for Windows since UE v18.00. I can make only speculations on how smart templates are managed by UEP. I think as long as Template directory at Advanced - Configuration - Directories is not set, UEP most likely manages the templates like UE in a subdirectory named templates in the directory of the used INI file. So I suggest to check if the templates directory is in the directory of the INI file of UEP. The full path of used INI file should be displayed at Advanced - Configuration - Application Layout - Advanced.

At one point my UEP had started using the %APPDATA% path of UltraEdit for the INI file. Don't know why, but it did. UE was already installed on the machine when I first ran UEP, and for some reason UEP found that and started using it. When I went to a new machine, my templates and my wordfiles were no longer there (specialized wordfiles). Only the default stuff.

I check the paths, and had to manually fix them in the INI file.

Once I did that, I never had the problem again. Just had to make a copy of my wordfiles and templates from my UE install on my hard drive to the portable drive.

I generally don't use UEP much, though, so I'm probably not the best one to answer as well. Just use it for testing my UE Companion program and occasional use when I travel, but I generally try not to work when I travel.

Thanks for the replies.

Yes, the drive in the template directory has changed when I used my UltraEdit in the XP OS and for some reason, UltraEdit did not dynamically determine the drive when I plugged it in Windows 7. So I had to manually change the drive.

This is an issue I had reported a while back. You should report this issue to IDM, as UEP should always update the INI file with the correct paths.