I am Googling and the only link i found are not official but from third party website.
I want the portable since it doesn’t mess with windows 10 permissions.
download the Zip file of blender… not the exe install version. Unzip it to it’s folder, go inside and select the “Blender.exe” file and right click it and paste a “short-cut” to your desk top. Not a copy it needs to be a “Short-cut”.
It is just that easy and has been since… the beginning. I keep a folder like this on a thumb drive when I move around to different computers. If that isn’t portable… I don’t know what is.
I click the short cut and up comes blender. Hardly ever install it anymore. You can add your addons as well.
Hi Bachnoral, the problem is that blender official download link only offer the msi installer and i don’t see a zip option in the website download section or maybe i am getting too old!
OK i figure it out it was under the others versions section but it was not very intuitive since it mention for linux and mac so i didn’t occur to me to click that link.
Go “other versions” along with linux and ios. Yea, it’s hidden there. Used to be easier to find. just download the zip version 64 or 32 that you need. And open it to what I was saying before.
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I wish they would just stop distributing these installers.
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What? Why?? The installers are an important part of Blender…Without them, you can not hope to install it.
With portable you don’t have to install at all so you can have multiple versions of Blender and it’s pretty handy believe me.
I believe you as I use a portable 2.79b, But I also know that stability is better when using an exe installed version. SO I use both. One portable on a thumb drive to carry around with me, and one EXE version on my home studio
My Comment was for chalybeum Who stated:
OK i see and so far i never experience any issues with portable vs installer.
Sry, no. Tbh. I don’t know why you think adding a layer of (unnecessary) complexity and hope that everything is ok, where you want to write to, would improve stability. What do you think the Blender installer does? Ever thought about it?
Blender never was ment to be used this way and in consequence we have far more questions, regarding version switching and preference portability then we would have without the installers.
The only reason why they are there is to widen the audience of Blender. To include the people that are reluctant to learn the basics of file operations on their machines. Computers are our tools. Mighty tools. One should know about them before using one.
All of this registry yada yada is opaque Windows BS anyway just to obfuscate what’s up in your machine. But if you want to believe in them…
Edit: Oh, and welcome to BA!
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Sorry for the double post but I feel the need to add an important point. In fact an installer is right against the core Blender philosophy. It was initially designed to live self contained in user land without interfering with the system internals. Ton believed that good software should just run and I agree to that.
What would you do on a system without Admin privilege? The beauty of Blender is, that it can be run anywhere by anyone.
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