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List of bad flash drives? (like my lot of SanDisk Cruzer Mini's that don't work)

Submitted by sunworks on February 5, 2007 - 6:50pm

Is there a list to post and/or check which drives do not work with PASuite (PortableApps Suite) ?

I just purchased 10 (ten) 4gb SanDisk Cruzer Minis and PASuite won't load and I'm stuck with garbage USB drives.

I purchased them because the price was good and the fact that I've had excellent results with the Cruzer Micro.

Would think a MySQL database for good/bad drives could be very useful and save a lot of headaches.

Regards,
Clinton

autorun

Submitted by djenner on February 4, 2007 - 11:53pm

I know this has been discussed; I am puzzled by the discussion. I notice that the official PortableApps launcher installs an autorun.inf in root. I can't get it to be seen and acted upon. What am I missing here? I can't imagine this would be so hard to adjust, even if XP is not friendly to the idea (clearly, the U3 folks dealt with this).

Library computer messed up my drive

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Submitted by MobileDev on February 3, 2007 - 12:31pm

Let me explain what's going on. When I plug my USB hard drive into a library computer, it allows me full read and write permissions, but only until I unplug it. After I unplug, I can't modify or delete the files and/or folders. All the computers in the library run Windows XP Professional. I think the problem has something to do with read write permissions between all the computers in the library, because all the file and folder names on the drive have a blue font color instead of the usual black.

Now have solution to rename menu entries and call batch and/or non-PortableApps apps from menu - like shortcut functionality :-)

Submitted by SimonHF on February 3, 2007 - 5:48am

Freeware & Open Source

Are you an enthusiastic PortableApps user? Ever wanted to rename the PortableApps menu entries? Ever wanted to create PortableApps menu entries to non-PortableApps (e.g. SecureCRT etc) applications which won't install into the PortableApps folder structure? Ever wanted to create PortableApps menu entries which execute a batch file? Well now you can with portableapps-menu-workaround.exe Smile How does it work? The portableapps-menu-workaround.exe makes copies of itself while 'cloning' the original icons & exe info from the target application to run.

Impressive...

Submitted by daTerminehtor on February 3, 2007 - 12:00am

I'd not updated any of my apps in a while so, when I came here and saw the 'new' portable suite I was pleasantly surprised. Got it installed and setup and I have to say I'm very impressed. Quite a step up from PSstart menu.

I see that you're going to incorporate the removal of apps from the menu on for your next build. May I also suggest allowing the renaming of apps (for the menu only). This is something I'd done with psstart. Just looks cleaner than having a bunch named blahblahPortable. Blum

autolaunch

Submitted by tbphx on February 2, 2007 - 3:50pm

So when I attach my PNY Attache 1gb USB flash drive with PortableApps installed to my Dell laptop with WinXP installed, I always get the "This device contains multiple file types" dialog box, with the first option being launching PortableApps from the flash device. However, the "always perform this action" check box isn't available in this dialog. Anyone know how to set the options so that it always just launches PortableApps from this device when I plug it in without asking me?

PortableApps and Vista

Submitted by Psijudge on February 1, 2007 - 5:34pm

I was having problems getting GIMP, GAIM and GTK+ to play along together in Vista Ultimate. After a couple of hours of frustration, I downloaded and installed Portable Apps Menu.
It installed without a problem, as Admin, and I was able to Sudoku and XAMPP installed as well.
GAIM has a problem with the display of the fonts, not sure if that is a problem with it getting the font info from Vista or a limitation of Beta5. Beta6 didn't have the problem.

GIMP and everything is now working just fine.

Thumbs up!

Psijudge.

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