General Discussion

background: I've been using FreeFileSync portable (the author's version not the PA one) for a few years now. Before that I used DirSync Pro. I've a grumble with FFS about it not writing logs at the moment so I took another look at DirSync Pro latest.

I like it. It is natively portable (though not in PA form).

Possible negs are that it is java so appears slower than FFS and munches quite a lot of memory on my XP era system, but that shouldn't bother people with shinier kit.

Hi,

I'm using the Portable Notepad++ and am having some trouble after hibernation if the program was opened. Right after the hibernation on the first use of the opened program, it crashes. When I start it again, I get a message that it needs to clean up some files from the crash and does so and ends. When I start it again, my settings under the menu Settings/Style Configurator is lost, but changes made to Settings/Preferences are still in place.

I've noticed that new versions of CherryTree and XnView are available from the developers, but the current versions are not on PortableApps.

Is it appropriate to mention this here, or is it known, and just no time to update them? It's okay either way!

Windows XP Home
gig of ram
2 dvd r/w 's
2 80 gig HD's
1 External 500 Gig HD
and yes, a working 1.5 floppy drive.
Wireless mouse
all on a Dell 2400 Dimension PC.

If it's possible, Developers... Can you recommend a collection of Apps to install with the Portable Apps platform for a good rescue USB flash drive. Example?

Portable Apps (so far)
Claimwin
Iobit uninstaller
Iobit unlocker
etc?

I am interested in the utorrent portable app. But when trying to download it I get an exe file. Do I have to use a downloader or something to get the actual zip file? Or is there a way to download just the zip file?

My need for portable apps is simple. I'm on different computers all the time, and most of them I do not have admin rights to. So a portable app does me no good unless it's REALLY portable, and doesn't try to write anything or need admin permissions.

Is that just not doable? Or if such exist, how do I know which ones don't require admin? The case in point is I just tried Revo uninstaller. It installed ok, but won't run at all without admin. I know, this is pretty deep stuff, but it's not the only so-called "portable" app I've had this problem with.

This Apps we can not download, because after click on download the page reloaded and reloaded...and this is a server error from portablepps? why we can not download this apps? what is the issue or bug?

McAfee Stinger Portable

µTorrent Portable

Hedgewars Portable

FreeMat Portable

K-3D Portable

fre:ac Portable

Paul Stretch Portable

WaveShop Portable

LAN Messenger

File Zilla

cdrtfe Portable

RedNotebook Portable

Scribus Portable

Sigil Portable

Task Coach Portable

KchmViewer Portable

KeepNote Portable

Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition

When using the PortableApps Platform to update FileZilla Portable, the Platform issues the following error message:

PortableApps.com Platform
The downloaded copy of FileZilla Portable is not valid and can not be
installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other
network issue. Please try running the updater again when complete.

Running the updater again results in the same error message.

It would be nice if....
--The portable apps sweet ACTUALLY hijacked the host pc so as to assume a temporary identity as a portable pc app launcher.

--that while hovering over the checklist of apps that your trying to decide on downloading would show a window with all the pertain ate details and compatibility's this program itself has.

--I seen apps that had app installers and uninstallers in it. Would it not be prudent to include this into the program?

I am a long time user of portableapps software, and this problem has boggled me for quite a while. Around December 2014, I started noticing network connectivity issues (not always consistent) with many of my portable apps:

Firefox - pages don't load sometimes. i get Content Encoding Error and Secure Connection Failed errors frequently.

Thunderbird - I use POP email for a few email addresses. Sometimes, when checking email, it shows that there are 1 out of x emails, but it only download a couple at a time. I have to re-send/receive to get all of them downloaded.