I am unable to install the program. I recently had to purchase a new USB drive, the old one had bad sectors an kept giving me write protection errors. I re-downloaded the full suite, as well as Firefox portable, and attempted to install them. I get a DOS box for less than a second, and the process terminates. There are no dialogue boxes or error messages.
I truly enjoyed the portability, and privacy, and want to be able to use the entire suite again. Has anyone else had a similar problem, and does anyone have a solution?
Thanks to all for a great product!
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Where have you tried this? At home? School/work?
Vintage!
I've heard before that when a DOS box opens and closes in a is because the exe is corrupted. Did you try downloading the program again and running it?
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I've tried the install at home and work, on two desktops and a laptop. All with mixed results.
The latest install got the menu up and running, but the last three icons were little DOS boxes, not the app icon. When clicked, the menu would shut down after a DOS box popped up for less than a second.
Also, when I copied over my Firefox profile folders, they copied onto the drive. But when the drive was accessed in another machine, there were no files in the folders.
After deleting everything to start over on the flash drive, Properties showed that although blank, 26.5 MB of space was used. I formatted the drive, back to 4 KB of used space (on a 4 GB drive).
This is driving me crazy. I've run all the antivirus software on all three computers that are being used, and come up with nothing. Two weeks ago I was happily using the apps, now I have lost data and productivity!!!!
Thanks to any and all for suggestions.
Try reformatting it or just renturn it for a new one.
Checked the MD5 hashes?
I bet they are different.
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And probably the CRC32 and SHA-1 checksums too. :lol:
Vintage!
I am not sure what the MD5 hashes are, or how to check them.....also, how do I check the checksums? The drive I bought was a noname from eBay, which it seems has something to do with it......
Back to shopping. Any recommendations for a 2GB or larger drive that is a good one?
There are a few programs to check the MD5, the one I use is ChaosMD5, you can google it, I dont remember where I got it from. A lot of programs that you download, either from PA.com or other places, have this information so you can compare it. For example: In the Firefox Portable page you can see that the MD5 Hash for it is 9b4cb3a6c551d44022b925119106b3ad, once you download it, open ChaosMD5 and select the file you have just downloaded. It will give you the MD5 of it. If everything was downloaded correctly, both should be the same.
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Marge: Homer, the plant called. They said if you don't show up tomorrow don't bother showing up on Monday.
Homer: Woo-hoo. Four-day weekend.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin