General Discussion

Just wanted to post a quick note about a recent upgrade. As the techies here know, PortableApps.com uses the Drupal content management system to handle the site, forums and pretty much everything else. I've been working the past week and a half to test the various modules, update the custom PortableApps.com theme and test the overall system to ensure that the upgrade would go smoothly.

You read how Open SOurce software can be freely distrubited and modified, but does anyone know of some? Take firefox for example, only other version Ive heard of is Swiftfox.

Is there a guide out there somewhere? What do I need to know? I was messing around with Portable FireFox, and it seems its made up of just the main program, .nds and .ini's. Im really intrested in this, would like to make my own custom browser

need a good free password program for my usb

Hi all,

I really like the idea of Portable Apps, and have been using Firefox and Thunderbird on my USB stick for a while now. However, I'm starting to think that this method of using external/additional hardware like USB sticks to run your applications is not the future of portable apps. As Google would probably tell you, hosted applications is the way forward, and I agree. I don't want to have to plug in my USB stick, along with all my keys that are attached to it, just to check my email, especially when I don't really want my boss to notice I'm doing it!

I have a A-DATA My Flash USB 2.0 USB 2 GB Drive, but it took me forever to install the portableapps suite. I also notice there is a decent delay on using portable firefox. i have only tried it once though, so im not sure if this is always the case. do i need a better thumbdrive?

Looks like we have a new false positive. It's Comodo again (it's had issues before). It's a false positive in every app it appears (it's finding a virus that didn't even exist at the time the files were posted). If you use Comodo, please post details of the file and virus and be sure to contact Comodo to inform them of their error.

I recently got a OCZ 4GB Rally 02. I was replacing an old 1GB drive that was starting to corrupt a lot of files.

I loaded up the new 4GB drive and started using portable apps. However for no good reason files were becoming corrupted. I always do a proper unmount so this made no sense.

So today I reloaded the drive from scratch, formatted FAT32. Periodically throughout the day I would do a chkdsk on the drive. The drive had corrupted files even though I did not eject/unmount the drive. Even more bothering was that corrupted files were in apps that I had not even used today.

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

hello,

I'm so waiting for linux that i'm very keen to ask: may be somebody knows when potable linux will be realised?