VMware THINAPP 4.6 - 7 Creating Thinapp Snapshots and Projects from the Command Line; Methods of Using the Snapshot.exe Utility; Creating Snapshots of Machine States

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Thesnapshot.exeutilitycreatesasnapshotofacomputerfilesystemandregistryandcreatesaThinApp
projectfromtwopreviouslycapturedsnapshots.Youdonothavetostartthesnapshot.exeutilitydirectly
becausetheSetupCapturewizardstartsit.Onlyadvancedusersandsystemintegratorswhoarebuilding
ThinAppcapability
intootherplatformsmightmakedirectuseofthisutility.
Creatingasnapshotofacomputerfilesystemandregistryinvolvesscanningandsavingacopyofthe
followingdata:
 Fileinformationforalllocaldrives
Thisinformationincludesdirectories,filenames,fileattributes,filesizes,andfilemodificationdates.
 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEandHKEY_USERSregistrytrees
ThinAppdoesnotscanHKEY_CLASSES_ROOTandHKEY_CURRENT_USER registryentriesbecausethose
entriesaresubsetsofHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEandHKEY_USERSentries.
Thesnapshot.iniconfigurationfilespecifieswhatdirectoriesandsubkeystoexcludefromaThinApp
projectwhenyoucaptureanapplication.Youmightcustomizethisfileforcertainapplications.
This
informationincludesthefollowingtopics:
 “MethodsofUsingthesnapshot.exeUtility”onpage 107
 “Samplesnapshot.exeCommands”onpage 109
 “CreateaProjectWithouttheSetupCaptureWizard”onpage 109
 “Customizingthesnapshot.iniFile”onpage 110
Methods of Using the snapshot.exe Utility
Youcanusethesnapshot.exeutilitytocreatesnapshotfilesofmachinestates,createthetemplatefileforthe
Package.inifile,createaThinAppproject,anddisplaythecontentsofasnapshotfile.
ForinformationaboutthefullproceduretocreateaThinAppprojectfromthecommandline,see“Createa
ProjectWithouttheSetupCaptureWizard”onpage 109.
Creating Snapshots of Machine States
Thesnapshot.exeutilitycreatesasnapshotfileofamachinestate.ThinAppcapturesthemachinestateand
savesittoasinglefiletocreateaproject.Thesnapshot.exeutilitysavesacopyofregistrydataandfilesystem
metadatathatincludespaths,filenames,sizes,attributes,andtimestamps.
Usage
snapshot.exe SnapshotFileName.snapshot [-Config ConfigFile.ini][BaseDir1][BaseDir2][BaseReg1]
Creating ThinApp Snapshots and
Projects from the Command Line
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