Hi, I'm new to this tool and something that I have noticed is that when launching a program outside of Start.exe the program writes it's data into %AppData%. This also causes the program to have two different set of settings, one with the %AppData% one and another with the portableapps folder.
Is this normal behavior? Can I make it so that this doesn't happen? If possible I would like it to just always save the data into the Portable Apps folder, regardless of how the program is launched.
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Programs still write data into %AppData% when launched outside of Start.exe
August 7, 2023 - 11:56am
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Programs still write data into %AppData% when launched outside of Start.exe
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If you mean by launching outside, if you pin to the taskbar directly or use file associations within the app, it will be run in local non-portable mode. You can pin apps to the taskbar correctly using the PA.c Platform by right-clicking an app. Windows pins just the app itself when done directly and not the portable launcher. For file associations, you'll need to use a third party utility to associate the AppNamePortable.exe launcher rather than the appname.exe base app which is what happens when you associate within the app itself.
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