{"id":396,"date":"2020-10-15T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/?post_type=knowledgebase&#038;p=396"},"modified":"2020-10-15T14:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T18:05:45","slug":"error-message-on-startup-cannot-create-file-cprogram-filesmediamonkeyportablemediamonkey-registry","status":"publish","type":"knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/knowledge-base\/mediamonkey-install-config\/error-message-on-startup-cannot-create-file-cprogram-filesmediamonkeyportablemediamonkey-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"Error message on startup: &#8216;Cannot create file C:\\Program Files\\MediaMonkey\\Portable\\MediaMonkey.registry&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MediaMonkey, as of MediaMonkey 4, supports a &#8216;Portable App&#8217; mode. This allows you to use MediaMonkey without having it making changes to Windows or to install MediaMonkey on a portable drive and use it with different PC&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If MediaMonkey is installed as a &#8216;Portable Install&#8217;, then it cannot be installed in the Program Files directory normal software is installed;\u00a0it must be installed to a location that is independent of the host system, otherwise, the following error will result:<br>Cannot create file &#8216;C:\\Program Files\\MediaMonkey\\Portable\\MediaMonkey.registry&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To resolve, uninstall MediaMonkey, and either:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Install it to the same location in non-Portable mode<\/li><li>Install it to a different location like C:\\MediaMonkey or on a portable drive<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaMonkey, as of MediaMonkey 4, supports a &#8216;Portable App&#8217; mode. This allows you to use MediaMonkey without having it making changes to Windows or to install MediaMonkey on a portable drive and use it with different PC&#8217;s. If MediaMonkey is installed as a &#8216;Portable Install&#8217;, then it cannot be installed in the Program Files directory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","knowledgebase_cat":[109],"knowledgebase_tag":[102,103],"class_list":["post-396","knowledgebase","type-knowledgebase","status-publish","hentry","knowledgebase_cat-mediamonkey-install-config","knowledgebase_tag-mmw4","knowledgebase_tag-mmw5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/knowledgebase"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase\/396\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_cat?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"knowledgebase_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediamonkey.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledgebase_tag?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}