Hi, I only just discovered your very interesting portable app manager!
However I'm not following how all app related (temporary working) files and/or app config data, can be fully cleaned up (and guaranteed as such), and thus a system kept secure and clean.
I found this thread discussing about a users temp directory, however so many apps have a habit of writing data to way more locations than a users temp directory, such as for example, the various C:\Users\\AppData directories, etc (which includes the users roaming profile directory).
And often this data can't be easily removed without using a program such as Bleachbit, which both searches out such data for each app and if need be, will set data to be deleted on a restart, if currently locked.
However, it seems like Bleachbit doesn't recognize when apps have been installed as portable via PortableApps, even though the apps might be writing data to the same locations as if they were installed into the OS registry.
Therefore, please, I am wishing to understand how this matter can be addressed.
Thank you.
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Apps are not permitted in our app directory if they leave anything personal behind in TEMP, APPDATA, LOCALAPPDATA, LOCALAPPDATALOW, PROGRAMDATA, the registry, Documents, etc. All of that is handled automatically with their included PA.c launcher (FirefoxPortable.exe for example). For apps that require stuff in the registry, for example, the existing (if any) is backed up and then the app's data loaded. When the app exits or crashes, the data is pulled back out and saved to the portable app's Data folder and then the existing (if any) moved back. Same for the files mentioned above.
All of the data you might be thinking of removing via BleachBit is contained in the app's Data directory when not running, so BleachBit will not find it unless the publisher of BleachBit specifically supports the portable versions of the apps.
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Thank you for the explanation