Hi All,
I am looking for a launcher that does not attempt to write to my usb drive on exit. I prefer to just remove the drive and sometimes forget to close the launcher software. If I try to then close the application, I get an error because the path is now invalid.
I've tried all the top launchers and the only one that does not do this is PortableApps 1.0 which I do not like for the lack of customizable features. Perhaps one app has a setting that I may have missed that prevents the launcher from writing to disk EVERY TIME it closes?
Anyone else have problems like this? Any help is much appreciated!
Regards,
Tom
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The next beta of the PortableApps.com Platform (Menu) has this feature... and a couple more that will help with your situation. I'm working on posting it this week.
And welcome to PortableApps.com
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Hi John,
Thanks. (For the help, the welcome and the ridiculously fast reply!)
Regards,
Tom
you said you were going to release it last month!
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Hi,
I suspect that you're confusing the "launcher", which is unique to each app, comes with it, and is responsible for the setup and cleanup of each portable application that you run, with the menu, which is just a list of the apps, and mostly what it does is run the launchers.
The reason that the launchers try to write on close is that they are gathering up all the settings data and registry entries that the app needs and uses, and trying to save them back to your drive so that the app knows how it should be set up next time. Even for relatively simple apps, that don't apparently save any data, you'd be surprised how much setup stuff there is sometimes, and it can include things like window placements, so it is always chaning around.
It is a really dangerous habit to get into, not closing apps, as sooner or later, there is the risk of doing it to a word processing document, a spreadsheet, an encrypted password database, or whatever other doc you're working on, which can end up totally trashing the document, or, worst case, the entire file system of your drive (though that one only if you pull it while it is in the process of writing).