Portable Beta 1

• Sep 18, 2014 - 16:45

I am a free-lance teacher working for a school once a week. I have finished some of my scores using the Beta 1 at home. I used to bring the portable Nightly version to work so that it can open the scores smoothly. But it no longer works as the new Nightly versions don't seem to run in their Windows XP due to an error of Qt5WebKit.dll.

I think perhaps a portable version in the format of the nightly releases on the same revision to Beta 1 could solve my problems.

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• Sep 18, 2014 - 17:09

I don't know about it technically, but the error messages don't remotely resemble what's described in the article. Instead, it goes something among the lines like "The software terminates with an incorrect behaviour" or something like that. It does not have a code, and the wordings are not seen in other programmes (perhaps a custom error message).

My last version that worked there was MuseScoreNightly-2014-06-30-2332-505c48b. So I suppose the error was not something as old as 6 months ago. But sadly, Beta 1 released later on and I regretfully used Beta 1 to do my latest material.

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• Sep 18, 2014 - 17:23

I will take a note tomorrow when I work there again.

Long story short, I want to know if I simply pack all the files in the directory C:\Program Files (x86)\MuseScore 2\ into a portable drive, would I be able to run it in another computer?

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• Sep 18, 2014 - 17:39

Thanks for trying anyway. I am simply taking every possible precaution. I have already packed quite a few different versions available today. So I guess, if there isn't a portable Beta 1, then I will just try my luck with whatever I have now.

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• Sep 18, 2014 - 18:44

I would advise to export your scores to MusicXML and open and save in MuseScore 1.3.
Then stick with MuseScore 1.3 in your school lab.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to use a month old open source beta software on a 12 year old out of date proprietary operating system...

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• Sep 18, 2014 - 20:18

What about taking your own operating system with you? You could try putting a bootable Linux onto a USB stick or portable HDD. The machines running XP are probably quite old so you could go with ubuntu as it's easy to get and well-supported but use the XFCE desktop for its frugal use of resources. Create the bootable disk then boot from the disk on a more powerful machine (your own home machine, for instance), download the source files and build your own 2.0.

To create a bootable ubuntu disk read sites like:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

To build your own MS 2.0 see:
http://musescore.org/en/developers-handbook/compilation/compile-instruc…

You might run into problems if a number of different soundcards are used but that's just part of the fun of it all.

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• Sep 19, 2014 - 14:24

Thanks for all the help, but I packed every file from a normally installed Beta 1 into a portable drive and it works like magic, even in their XP machine. So I guess it is good to say that the Beta 1 is itself portable without requiring the run the msi and registries.

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• Sep 19, 2014 - 18:41

Well, one minor issue is that, the Avira AntiVir thought that the software is a malware. It was such an awkward moment when I tried to disable the protection in front of my students. This perhaps leads to a whole new problem: Should somebody send message to Avira to remind them MuseScore is not a malware? Or simply just ignore it?

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