Feature Request: Provide as a Zip file or Portable Application

[mva1985]

Instead of installing to my system it would be nice to just be able to unzip and go

[RoyiAvital]

@PortableApps has GrepWin in their suite.

Could you work with them to offer BowPad and CryptSync?

[KuleRucket]

This is a must for me. At work I don't have admin privileges but still want to decrypt a Dropbox folder

[KuleRucket]

I'm guessing that this is never going to get implemented. If anyone knows a good alternative that is portable, please message me.

[mva1985]

@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

[cfbao]

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.

[RoyiAvital]

@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?

[cfbao]

@RoyiAvital If by "configure" you mean without changing the current source code/executables, then no.

[KuleRucket]

Well, extracting from the msi file and running with /tray option works pretty well. There are some niggles but it's good enough. Thanks.

[ghrasc]

...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

[ghrasc]

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 #35 (comment) 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 ;)