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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Portable Apps dont write to thumb drive... right?

Submitted by jbirdAngel on August 14, 2007 - 4:26pm

Hello,

Do the portable apps write or erase from the thumb drive? I'm thinking they don't since it looks like atleast some of them can be run from a CD, but I want to be sure.

Also if its okay to ask, Once a drives write/erase cycles are maxed out, can the thumb drive still be read, and just not written to or erased? Or can it not even be read?

Thanks - Jason

Donation

Submitted by dallen on August 13, 2007 - 10:29pm

I really like what you're doing here with the development of PortableApps. Keep up the good work. Every few days I have been checking your site and am pleased to see new apps that I find useful being added (most recently Pidgin).

I am guilty of benefitting from your hard work for free for over a year and I think it is time that I do what I should have done a long time ago and give you some money for your efforts. So, be looking for a donation from me in the next couple of days (I'm only a student so it won't be as much as you deserve).

CD/DVD Imaging

Submitted by Jacob Mastel on August 11, 2007 - 10:13pm

Does anyone know of a free CD/DVD Image creator. The porpose is to create a image to be used for a virtual CD Drive. I don't really care if it's portable I just need it to be free. Any feed back would be greatly appricated. Smile

Regular .exe programs

Submitted by jordi.c on August 11, 2007 - 7:57am

Hello,

I can only install .paf.exe programs when I chose for "Install a New App".

I have Office 2007 (word,excel,powerpoint) in portable format, how can I add these executables so they are coming visible in the apps menu like Firefox Portable.

I also have other programs which are portable and would like to see in the list under FireFox is this possible?

On softpedia.com I downloaded foobar2000 portable, why cannot I install it like Firefox Portable.paf.exe (Options->Install a New App.)?

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w199/jordicc/office2007.jpg

Portable apps menu

Submitted by VRonin on August 11, 2007 - 7:50am

Hi everybody, I just created a program using borland delphi that when opened it starts both thunderbird portable and FreePOPs, if I run it with double-click it works fine but if I start it from the p.a. menu then it doesn't work, I mean it opens the program but it wont open thunderbird nor freepops. can somebody explain me why? thanks

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