Element™ portable

• Notice of Non-Affiliation and Disclaimer
• About
• Installation
  • Upgrade
• Infos
  • Modifications
  • Configuration
• Known issues
• Download

Notice of Non-Affiliation and Disclaimer

Portapps is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Element™, or any of its subsidiaries or its affiliates.

The official Element™ website can be found at https://element.io/.

The name Element™ as well as related names, marks, emblems and images are registered trademarks of their respective owners.

About

Element™ portable app made with Portapps.
An open source, free software instant messaging client based on the Matrix protocol.

Installation

Download and install the latest portable setup where you want then run element-portable.exe.

If you have already installed Element™ from the original setup, move the following files :

• %APPDATA%\Element\* to data

Then run element-portable.exe and remove Element™ from your computer.

Upgrade

For an upgrade, simply download and install the latest portable setup.

Infos

Modifications

Here is what differs from the original release to ensure portability :

• Following switches are passed to the process.
  • --user-data-dir=<data_path> : Directory where the Electron stores the user data. <data_path> is dynamically generated at launch.
• Check for updates disabled

Configuration

Element™ portable can be configured through the main YAML configuration file :

app:
  cleanup: true

• cleanup : Cleanup leftover folders (default false)

Known issues

There is no known issues Please let us know if you found one!

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