This just started happening. I remove the usb drive per normal, plug it back in later, one or more portable apps are gone, ie, I still see then entry in Pstart, but no icon. I go to explorer to look within the specific app directory for the files, and all the files are gone. This happens randomly and with differing apps. There are no viruses on the usb drive. Thx for any help.
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It is possible that your antivirus program is detecting them as a threat. If the antivirus is set to remove viruses without promting you, you will never know.
Your virus scanner may be detecting Portable Apps as viruses (false positives) and deleting them automatically.
Check for updates for your virus scanner.
What scanner are you using?
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It does not seem to be the anti-virus program. It is ClamWin Portable and it is set to report only.
I have run it several times, no issues.
Any other ideas? Thankfully I had a current backup.
Hi Mike,
I had a similar problem a few months back, and I'm about 90% certain it was due to me using a pretty low quality USB drive.
I bought a SanDisk Titanium, coped all my files directly over onto that, and have never had the same problem since...
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It is a Titanium. Not sure why it does that. Also does the same on my OCZ and ATP usb drives, all very good quality. Thanks for any thoughts.
When they suggested it might be the antivirus, they meant antivirus on the PC. Avast is notorious for messing with portable apps, for instance.
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I had a 1GB Sandisk drive and now a 4GB OCZ drive. Any chance your Windows installation is on an NTFS partition?
I found that running chkdsk was returning corrupted files.
Also look for a folder on your flash drive root called FOUND.000
It is a hidden system folder, chances are that chkdsk ran and created this folder.
I have found that Toshiba loads some funny applications that mess with the Yahoo Widget Engine. Just at thought.