Hi, I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong, I've searched the forums but no thread stood out for this problem. As I type, OpenOfficePortable is installing on my OCZ Rally2 8GB flash drive. Best guess is, it's taken 20 minutes so far, the progress bar is about 2/3, I'd say it's been on th_en_US_v2.dat for about 5 minutes. It was the same installing GIMP Portable, and others.
I guess that's just the way it is, I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Any insight? I know flash drives are slower for writing, but this is truly ridiculous...
AFAIK, there's nothing else running on my flash drive at the time. Computer is normally plenty fast.
Here's a specific question, when the PortableApps.com installer is unpacking files, does it unpack them on the target drive, or the drive where the .paf.exe file is? My gut feel is that it takes absurdly long to unpack large files because it's being unpacked on the flash drive? I'm guessing that small files seem to go fine, it's the biggies that bog down exponentially. The .paf.exe is on C:.
BTW, it just finished, I'm sure it took 30 minutes to complete.
Next up is StellariumPortable, I started it at 4:52, 3 minutes later, it's on libstelmain.dll(3 ticks on the progress bar). Some files go faster than others, but I seem to be averaging about one "tick" per minute.
I hope someone has some insight, because obviously this is unusable.
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Yes, larger ones tend to take longer. I had a cruzer micro, and it took hours to finish OOo Portable. I got a flash drive for my birthday and it took about 12 minuts to finish. Usually it matters how old it is, and how big it is (ones between 512MB and 4GB tend to be faster, since they are the newer ones, and larger ones are slower). It has nothing to do with your computer being fast or slow, it's a self extracting archive. I know, searching may not be the easiest way. But for things like this, just check out the first 2 pages of the forums, it happens commonly.
@John, you might want to add something about stalling to your install FAQ.
Edit: It's rated to 30MB/s write time, being fast. Most likely, it was corrupted, or your PC froze without your knowing.
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My OO (not the latest version) is
174 MB (182,476,800 bytes)on disk and has
2.452 files, 366 directories .
This will take some time to "install" on a flash-drive, even a fast one .
Also, sometimes USB "reverts" to v1.0 and that wont give you speeds higher than about 1.5MB/s as opposed to USB 2.0's theoretical max-speed of about 50MB/s .
So, if your Flash-drive (or rather your OS) is using USBv1 you might be able to do something about it .. but still, writing 2.400 files WILL take some time .
edit : And then I forgot to mention this about Windows and pen-drives
(thanks for the reminder RogerL) :
"This is most likely because Windows' handling of pendrive filesystems is braindead. I still don't understand why, but when Windows writes a directory entry to a pendrive, it rewrites the entire directory table. So writing files is sloooow.
https://portableapps.com/node/11565#comment-66823 "
Mine takes 6 hours so be cool...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
We're not just talking "time for a coffee", are we?
Thanks for the responses...
to be fair I have to say that since I formated my USB drive to NTFS it takes 20 minutes to install OOo Portable...
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
First go to START then go to MY COMPUTER then find the letter that is your flash drive. Next right click on the icon and choose properties, then go to the HARDWARE TAB and look in the list for the name of your flash drive, once you have highlighted your flash drive click on the PROPERTIES button. A new window should pop up. Once there go to the policies tab and change it to OPTIMIZE FOR PERFORMANCE click OK and Ok on the previous screen. It may require a system restart, but you should notice a difference in how long it takes to put files on it. Also remember to SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE or you may lose your files. Hope this helped.
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