I installed the 4.2 pre release platform and wanted to install the apps via manage apps. Clicked in over 100 apps to install, they all downloaded and then.....
next, next, finish. next, next, finish......repeat until all installled.
= notbeing able to install overnight = hours of tedious clicking....
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Did you close the platform at any point? This can cause that behaviour. Also note that even when run in "silent", installers requiring a license to be accepted will still have a popup for you for that purpose.
on your computer there may be other pop ups as well such as firewall and such
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PortableApps.com Installers will not run in silent mode unless the PortableApps.com Platform is running, so my guess is that either you closed the Platform (read as “What Gord Caswell said”), or the Platform crashed after a number of installs finished, due to the Icon Handling bug (described on the Pre-Release Bug Reports page as "Platform crashes after updating dozens of apps. GDI leak due to icon handling. New icon handling in progress"), if this happens, you should be able to simply run the platform again, click through the install in progress, and subsequent installs will continue silently again (if you have enough installs lined up that it crashes again, just start it again); if this is indeed what you are experiencing, then it's a known bug, and (as is stated in the description) it will be fixed when the "New Icon Handling" is finished, in the meantime sorry for the inconvenience.
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Although it may be possible that the icon handling is at fault, it has been my experience that installs run ok, it is upon completion of installs that the icon handling bug is presented.
Of course, that is just my experience, so take that as you will.
[EDIT 10-NOV] fixed emphasis tag.
On some of my computers I've found the Icon Handling bug to occur after as few as 17 Icon Refreshes (the number appears to change based on the computer and on how many apps you have installed), and as each app that gets installed tells the Platform to refresh the list at the end of it's installation, adding "over 100 apps" would refresh the list "over 100" times, thus I think it is likely that it would crash the Platform at some point, after which it wouldn't be running and installations would cease to be silent.
Note: Of-course, this is based off of my own experiences with the Platform, and I have not actually started with a blank install of the Platform and used the PortableApps Directory to install "over 100 apps", thus I am not in any way saying that this IS what happened; simply that it is a possibility, and that IF it is what happened, it is a known bug, and will be fixed in the future.
~3D1T0R
I'd actually wager this is what happened. It's a cumulative bug based on the number of open handles to icon files (in the ICO or the EXE in the case of non-PAF apps). Each app installed refreshes the menu. Each refresh uses up the number of handles for the total number of icons in all available apps. So, yes, I'd wager installing 100 apps would trigger the bug and crash the platform.
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