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Wear and tear on drive

Submitted by bmearns on December 21, 2006 - 10:59pm

I've heard before that running apps from flash memory can provide serious wear and tear on the memory. Since flash degrades after a certain number of writes/erasures, and since programs generally right to disk rather frequently (e.g., save settings), running the apps will utilimately lead to an accelerated death. Are the portable versions specifically designed not to do this? Are there any other issues like this I should be aware of?

Much obliged.
-Brian

USB Drive or New Suite - Slooooow as heck

Submitted by dyfrin on December 21, 2006 - 3:55pm

Hi, I have 4 usb drives,
one of the original powervaults 64mb
a cheapo lexar jumpdrive 128mb given by a school
a sony USM512E from work
a sony USM1GJ just bought.

I ran portable apps firefox, gaim and filezilla (portaputty as well) from the 64/128/512.

Then all went to junk on both the 512 and the new 1gb. Both from sony maybe thats the bad part, but I sent the 1gb back and they shipped a new one, I swore the thing was slow as heck but its on both drives im seeing this, where before it wasn't.

When opening an application, the app takes 3x as long to load, talking 20+ seconds here. Then while open, say firefox, will freeze when scrolling for about 3 seconds then move again. Happens when typing, or anything, same with filezilla, it will start going then pause again.

How to create a shortcut to PSP folders?

Submitted by Sergix on December 21, 2006 - 7:26am

Hi Guys,

I have a Sony PSP and, has many of you know, PSP uses Default Folders to store Pictures, Music and Video. We can´t rename delete or move those folders, so that PSP knows where to get the data. I have replaced the folders in Portable Apps for shortcuts pointing to those folders but i had to create a shortcut like this "D:\PHOTO".

My question is: If i connect my PSP to a computer in wich he assumes the Disc drive has E: or another letter differnet from D: i won´t be able to access the PSP folders using the Portable Apps Menu, i will have to use the explore disc shortcut.

Is there any way to configure the shortcut to use the drive letter assigned for the PSP? Like in Windows when we do %systemroot% and he points to the Windows folder no matter the drive letter.

Thank you.

Submitted by montez2301 on December 20, 2006 - 11:42am

I can't tell you how grateful I am for PortableApps.com. I recently took a job in a networked environment where I don't have admin privileges, my network profile allotment is a measly 30 mb, and I'm not allowed to bring my laptop to work. Loading PortableApps onto a 512 mb Lexar flash drive has given me total control of my computing environment. I'm free!

I'm quickly filling up the 512 drive, though. I'm going to kick it up a notch to a 10 gb pocket hard drive connecting through firewire -- faster, I hope, and lots of room to grow.

Thanks, John!

Kingston DT Elite...slows down

Submitted by paladin2006 on December 19, 2006 - 2:30pm

When I install a fresh copy of the portable apps on my DT Elite they all work responsively.

After a time the apps slow down. FF for example is crawling. So I reinstalled FF and it is a bit better but still slow. I used to run Faster Fox, Scrapbook etc but with the new install I omitted these extensions and it is still slow.

I did not change any of the settings so 0MB cache etc.

Does anyone know why this happens. I have also reformatted the DT and that helps but soon enough FF slows down. This does not seem to happen so obviously to Thunderbird for example.

Am I expecting too much from the DT? Have the write cycles caught up with me?

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