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Hi All-

I have an EEE PC which only has 4gb drive and I have an 8gb sd card where I have portable apps suite on. I only had 1gb left on my pcs drive and after i tried to backup my portable apps from the sd card to my pc first then i tried to a network drive I only have 100 mb left and the crazy thing is the backup failed to complete twice and I dont know how to get the 1gb space back on my pc that the portable apps backup took away. I looked in the backup folder but nothing is in there. where could this huge file be?

Please help!

THANKS!

Hopefully I am not rehashing something but i did do a few forum searches on this already...

Which protables apps are actually faster U3 or PA...

And, I took the PA version of firefox and put it thru package factory then installed it on U3 because I did not want to lose all the bookmarks and settings I already had on my PA firefox, but wanted to see how this would work...problem is I can't tell at this point if its faster or slower, but it does work.

What could be the ramifications of this?

I was re-installing my entire USB drive with newer version of all the Apps software.
I installed the PortableApps.com_Platform_Setup_1.1_Beta_4.exe
file and keep getting the Autorun.inf file as having the INF/Rustank.A worm.

I am using ETrust AV 7.1.501

Is there a virus in the installer? Or might this be a False positive?

well, i feel like a nub asking this. but i cant get anything that requires the internet to connect. the programs launch fine, but are unable to connect, firefox, thunderbird, gaim, pidgin, miranda, none of them work. i turned off my firewall but that didnt help. all apps on my hdd work fine. suggestions are much appreciated.

hey all
i have a problem on my with Thunderbird and firefox
when i have the setting set to runlocally=true it does not copy the settings back into my flash drive.
here is exactly what it is for firefox

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=true
AllowMultipleInstances=false
DisableIntelligentStart=false
SkipChromeFix=false
SkipCompregFix=false
RunLocally=true

I appreciate all websites who support ssl.

When visiting https://www.portableapps.com/ with firefox there is a warning becuase the certificate is for portableapps.com without www.

Afaik (I may be wrong) the standard way to deal with the certificate is to create it for the www.site.

+ is there still no certificate authority who creates free certificates (and built into browser by standard)?

OK I am having a real problem. I use to use your apps all the time on my work computer. but none of the new apps work. An example would be KeePas, it gives me a pop up saying "An unsupported operation was attempted". Another would be pidgen which returns "error loading pidgin.dll Error: (5) Access is denied" I am running pidgin, the real portable version, fine on my computer but yours does not work. A true portable app should run on all computers and not even try to load dlls.

On the OpenOfficePortable page it says
File size: 77.4MB (download), ~219MB (installed)

I was looking at my flash drive and for the properties of my OOP install I see
Size: 229 MB (240,621,056 bytes)
Size on Disk: 325 MB (341,639,168 bytes)

I do have a few extra templates and addons installed into my OOP so that changes my file size some. My question is what is causing the disparity with the size and the size on disk? Is that something to be worried about?

TIA!!

Hi John,

In the future, Can you include on the Portable App Launcher to run placed links/shortcuts on the Portable Apps Directory? In my opinion this would be cool for unzipped binaries placed elsewhere on the portable device and just linking the executables. Because I noticed that when i try to place the entire directory (e.g. nightly build of inkscape) all the exes are shown in the menu. I cant delete the other executables just to prevent them from showing up. It's just a small detail to add. Thanks