lossless-cut/installation.md

Installation and files

There is no installer

There is no installer. The app is just a compressed file that you download from GitHub and extract. Then you run the executable contained within.

• Windows: Download the .7z file and extract it using 7zip.
• MacOS: Mount the dmg and drag the app into your Applications folder.
• Linux: Y'all know what to do ;)

Portable app?

LosslessCut is not a portable app. If you install it from the Mac App Store or Microsoft Store, it is somewhat portable because it will be containerized by the operating system, so that when you uninstall the app there will most likely not be many traces of it left. You can however customise where settings are stored, see below.

Settings and temporary files

Settings, logs and temporary cache files are stored in your appData folder.

appData folder:

OS	Path	Notes
Windows	%APPDATA%\LosslessCut
Windows (MS Store Version)	C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Packages\57275mifi.no.LosslessCut_eg8x93dt4dxje\LocalCache\Roaming\LosslessCut	*Not sure
MacOS	~/Library/Application Support/LosslessCut
MacOS (App Store version)	~/Library/Containers/no.mifi.losslesscut/Data/Library/Application Support/LosslessCut
Linux	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/LosslessCut or ~/.config/LosslessCut

What is Windows %APPDATA%?

Settings and keyboard actions are stored inside the config.json file inside your appData folder.

Custom config.json path

On Windows, if you create a config.json file with the contents {} next to the LosslessCut.exe file, LosslessCut will read/store settings from this file instead of the one inside appData. Note that other temporary files will still be stored in appData. Alternatively you can specify a custom path to a folder containing config.json by using the CLI option --config-dir. See also #645.

How to uninstall

Just delete the folder/app that you extracted when you installed it.

If you want to also delete all settings, logs and caches, see Settings and temporary files above. See also #2058.

Unofficial versions

Because LosslessCut is Open Source (GPL), there are many people and organizations who publish their own variant of LosslessCut for example portableapps.com. This is fine, however I don't provide support for those versions.