Portable Mode

By default, GoldenDict saves program configurations and indexes in the user's home directory. To save them in a single portable location, you can to create a portable folder next to the main program file. Once this folder exists, GoldenDict will launch in portable mode.

Portable Mode is especially convenient when you want to keep all data (including the large full-text search indexes) on an external drive or in a custom folder. If you prefer to keep the existing directory structure and only relocate the growing index folder, see Move the index folder instead.

In portable mode, the configurations and indexes are stored in the portable folder. All dictionaries must be placed in or inside the subfolders of content folder, which located besides the main program file.

Folder structure:

<program directory>/
├── Goldendict            main program file
├── content/              all dictionary files (.mdx, .dsl, .ifo, ...)
│   └── morphology/       morphology dictionaries
└── portable/             GoldenDict's own data lives here
    ├── config            program configuration
    └── index/            full-text search indexes

All dictionary files you want to load can be placed in or inside the subfolders of the content folder described above.