General Discussion

How can I make a new video reuse an existing instance of SMPlayer?

When loading a video in SMPlayer (smplayerportable.exe) and then using openwith for another video file a new instance of SMPlayer is opened (ie 2 are running). Even setting windows file association to smplayerportable.exe opens a new instance.

What I've tried / verified:
SMPlayer is set to only use one instance.
Setting AllowMultipleInstances=false in the .ini does nothing (yes it's been moved to the correct location as the splash screen gets disabled)

Kodi demands a shortcut with a "-p" argument to work this way.

The problem is that shortcuts don't appear/work with PortableApps.com launcher.

The problem with that, is that instead of launching the portable Kodi, it's launching the actually installed Kodi.

I'd like to be able to sample different builds simply (and eventually get rid of the installed Kodi).

So I see there's a method to accomplish this, mentioned here: https://portableapps.com/node/18390

Subject: Launching QOwnNotes Portable 20.9.7 sometimes erases user data

Background

Recently, I installed QOwnNotes Portable 20.9.4. Over the course of a few days, I created some notes and installed a few dictionaries. This (20.9.4) worked well. Then I installed the latest (20.9.7) over it.

The following 4 apps receive the same message: "The downloaded copy of...is not valid and can not be installed."
They are:
1) Autoruns
2) DebugView
3) VMMap
4) Zoomit

When using PAP to update Process Monitor, it delivers a message box with a 404 error ("Download Error: File not found").

Is this a PortableApps issue or an upstream issue that needs to be reported elsewhere?

https://portableapps.com/news/2020-04-30--process-explorer-portable-16.3...

I'm getting this error when launching the installer: https://i.imgur.com/N0JeSLx.png

Some advice would be appreciated

I'm looking to automate the installation of a couple portable application into a build process.

I was wondering if there is an API available to get the list of version for a specific application. I'm willing and able to just scrape the web pages, but I was hoping there might be a more official and sanctioned way to get this data.

Thank you!
Brian

What is t do, the portableApps.com is installed and running on a stick example drive number LW D:\
then using this stick on another machine the drive D:\is used and i need (must) to use perhaps another drive, perhaps E:\ for the USB Stick to run.
but the correspending app i want to start use the drive D:\ and there the installed subfolders
What is to do ?

The start.EXE of portable.Apps.com ... open his menü and the link i think is fix by first installed in my case drive D:\
Best regards
wolfgang

What’s going on with the forum? Hacked? There are a lot of old posts labeled -nuked- and posted by the same user

New to forum. I'm trying to use PortableApps platform across machines with a flash drive, specifically with AIMP. When I load up data onto the common flash drive, it stays while I use a specific computer, BUT when moving to another machine, if the DRIVE LETTER CHANGES all of the associations from that drive are lost. How do I make the apps on PortableApps truly "portable?" THANK YOU, in advance, for your help.