General Discussion

I am a first-time poster here. I have used portable apps for quite a while, and I increasingly use them on my desktop machine, to avoid dealing with the hassles of uninstalling or conflicts with other software. I am always on the lookout for great new portable apps. The Portableapps.com web site is a real gold mine.

Hey, is there a Voice Chat or sound Comm of some sort that can connect to more than one, a few ot most other IM'sor Chat or sound comms, rather than absolutely having to have the same program like skype, or same messenger to talk ?. Like Pidgin can connect to several IM's...AND Or what's the most popular thing going for Voice chats ? skype ?

doesn't matter wich portable app i want to start. Theres alway a message from the program in the right edge of the desktop and it seems to start. but then theres just a windows message which says that the programm doesn't work! this happens with EVERY program i tried and i tried a lot!!

i hope some of you can help me.

What is the best format for a USB flash drive?

ntfs, fat16, fat 32, exfat? (sorry linux, the world is not formatted to accept you just yet, but hopefully soon)

Also does file allocation size have an impact?
Is one format better for smaller drives (

In the beginning, PortableApps all had SettingsDirectory setting that allowed you to move the Data directory for each portable app. Lately I have had to recompile some NSIS scripts to have them read that settings from the .ini files.

With the 2.0 scripts, the ability to customize the Data directory location seems to have been removed altogether. Is that correct?

If not, how do I customize the location of the Data directory via .ini files?

mz

I'm new on these PortableApps.com Forums. I barely joined yesterday.
I already mentioned this issue over at the Support Forums, but haven't seen any response. I don't know if it hasn't been seen over there by those who are best able to look into and fix the problem.

I tried 3 times yesterday to download Opera 10.62 Rev 2 and on all 3 attempts, I encountered an error at around the 300 plus KBytes range of the download. I wound up having to download OperaUSB 10.62 over at the source that Opera recommends.

I'd rather use the PortableApps.com version as it makes installation easier.

Dialog box says "utorrent.exe could not be found". I think there is a misnaming; the actual app is called utorrentportable.exe. Renaming it didn't help, though.

I was using the PortableApps.com Updater, when I got errors when downloading the updates: this happened with Opera, Opera (Test), and GIMP. All said "File not found" with the error URL. My guess is that the URL was wrong in the INI.

Please fix it. Thanks!

HTML is probably the most used electronic file on Earth! Every web page is built from the HTML format, and there are trillions of web pages! And of course, the most logical tool in any word creation program is spell check; the ABC’s of any word software program! Now, following this simple logic, you would think that every program that could open and/or edit any HTML file would (naturally) have a spell check function, right? Wrong!

The latest status release is now on John T. Haller's blog here: https://portableapps.com/blogs/johnhaller/2011-02-01_status_update

Greetings all and welcome to a long-overdue PortableApps.com Status Update. It's been way too long since we've sat around and discussed the state of things, so, with some prodding from a couple devs, I thought I'd go over where things are.

New App Releases