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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Just found out about this.

Submitted by russki.max on July 28, 2019 - 4:24am

Hello everyone, I have recently discovered portable apps and have been looking exactly for something like this. I do a lot of work on different devices all the time and this is perfect for organizing. I have a 256gb Samsung USB that's type c as well. Sometimes I work on files on my phone so a type c flash drive is very helpful. I understand that portable apps won't work on Android and that's ok but would I still be able to use the flash drive as before to work on files when plugged into my phone? Should I split the 256gb into different partitions?

Launchy file associations, or open via eXpresso / Coffee

Submitted by thank_you_for_p... on July 19, 2019 - 10:08am

I use Coffee to do file associations portably on my WinPC (Coffee is a mod of eXpresso, and very similar).

However Launchy (I use it in portable mode) doesn't send clicks to Coffee / eXpresso. Any thoughts on how I could get Launchy to send clicks there?

Or if Launchy has its own custom file association mechanism?

Note: I've added Launchy to Coffee / eXpresso via "Monitored Window Configuration", but that didn't solve it.

portableapps.com "new apps" RSS feed missing? Weird discovery!

Submitted by Shep on July 18, 2019 - 11:38pm

This has seemingly been an issue for a long, long while (years?) but I only realized some funky stuff now today. I searched the forums for answers and came up empty, and I don't see support channels for the website itself... hopefully this is the right spot? If not, let me where to go and I'll happily report the bugs to the proper place. The shortest gist of it is that the RSS feeds for portableapps.com are labeled incorrectly, nonexistent, and off-site too.

PortableApps deletes app directory on update, including config/data files. Ouch.

Submitted by chemazapiens on July 4, 2019 - 9:52pm

Hi,

I just found out, the hard way, that PortableApps deletes app directory on update, including config/data files. Ouch.

This is nothing new, apparently:
https://portableapps.com/node/58211
https://portableapps.com/node/43334
etc.

I'm a light user of the platform, and I lost only a pair of hours of work or so (though it's going to be challenging to remember all the things lost, actually).

Just a heads up for users of GnuPG

Submitted by Freehunter on July 4, 2019 - 1:33pm

I'm not an expert, just passing this along as a word of caution.

This is probably not a problem for causal users of GnuGP. Temporarily it would be advisable NOT to refresh certificates from the SKS keyserver network. Particularly if your keyring has GnuPG contributors Robert J. Hansen (rjh) or Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg) who were victims of a certificate spamming attack.

windows 10 capability

Submitted by alanbcohen on June 25, 2019 - 4:46am

I've come back to windows after many decades primarily using linux. my distro abandoned 32bit apps.so, I bought a new HP laptop (that claims to be 64 bit). I' tryed to use portable apps as they had previously met my needs. when I try to use Libre Office or GIMP, both fail immediately. how about publishing a list of what works on windows 10?

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