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Running Portable Apps from Android Phone

Submitted by McNutty195 on September 20, 2018 - 10:16am

Greetings all,

I'm looking at beginning to use my phone as my EDC storage device with all of my portable apps.

However, I've found that some portable apps don't seem to work from the phone. I've also found that I can't use the PortableApps installer to install portable apps on the sd card or storage of my phone.

I think this is because when I connect my Galaxy S8+ to the computer through USB it doesn't get assigned a drive letter. It pops up with an MP3 player icon (MTP I think)

Does anyone know anything about this?

Different installation media types and registry conflicts

Submitted by phay on September 10, 2018 - 5:49pm

Hi, I've been using an installation of PortableApps, which is located on an External USB3 Hard Drive. This installation is a 'working installation', which I use to download and evaluate individual apps, with the intention of eventually placing a select subset of apps on a USB Flash Drive.

I also use this External USB3 Drive installation to run apps which I may use only occasionally, and thus prevent unnecessarily clogging up my Windows registry with local application installations.

I lost extensions in both Iron and Chromium browsers

Submitted by gwt10 on September 9, 2018 - 6:44am

Wow, not sure what happened here, but when I plugged my USB into another computer, I noticed I lost all my extensions in both Iron and Chromium. Yes, I know Chromium isn't supported here but Iron is and the same thing happened in both.

Bookmarks and password are still there but the extensions I installed have disappeared.

I noticed Opera and Firefox stayed intact, though. What's going on there?

Does it not save the profile locally on the USB?

Or did some fluke happen?

Change Firefox portable folder to .exe

Submitted by privatetools on September 7, 2018 - 10:05am

Change Firefox portable folder to .exe
How can i make changes to firefox portable folder. I want to run Firefoxportable.exe without giving him access to apps,data,others.

I want to run firefoxportable.exe only all the app,data,others must come inside firefoxportable.exe so, that i can hide the folders within the .exe
I only want firefoxportable.exe not firefoxportable folder as all other data can be access.

Example of the software avaialble in market ion bundler but there you cannot change icon or app details,
any expert plz help

Download counter fixed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on September 3, 2018 - 1:51am

As a part of updating our stats system to work with the new app directory page layouts, I noticed an error in calculations for the overall download numbers that resulted in millions of double counted downloads. I've fixed the math and removed the duplicates. I'm erring on the side of caution and throwing out numbers that appear to be due to hack/probe attempts as well. The numbers may change and possibly jump back up a bit as I continue my analysis. Apologies for any confusion resulting from this.

FF Portable 52 ESR lost search engines

Submitted by mozfan on August 31, 2018 - 3:25pm

I switched from XP to win7 and everything was fine till I moved my search box into tab menu to make all other icons fit in the navigation bar. Not sure if it was the cause, but I lost all search engines and any ability to add or reset to default (greyed out). Someone suggested this fix in about:config browser.search.showOneOffButtons, but the line is not there. I tried placing the search box back into navigation bar - no icons; tried in FF61 on another thumb drive - works in both places. Safe mode restored all search engine icons as well.

Please remove the annoying message that the application didn't shutdown correctly.

Submitted by Franky98 on August 29, 2018 - 11:10pm

First, that for an excellent work, but I have a suggestion that I believe will help everybody.

Please remove the annoying message that the application didn't shutdown correctly.

Indeed very annoying/stupid message that doesn't resolve anything and is very unproductive.

Thank you
Franky

running .exe from USB to store App on Usb

Submitted by maanhu on August 28, 2018 - 7:49am

Hello, I work at a private company who has a pretty good IT controlled environment, and it will not let me download anything to my computer without passing it by them first, wich is ussually not a problem if it is worthy of there time to install for you. I am trying to bypass the pain of this be using portableapps to open the .exe file from USB to save everything on the USB file. Then i could just start a program from my USB.

Is this possible. I have not been successful yet.

Thank You for your time in advance.

DriveSnapshot

Submitted by VB30 on August 27, 2018 - 10:53am

As i was going to try this App portable and there was nothing i could find on the forum. Is the below link legal ? (i know this is a paid app).

Illegally packaged app link removed. - mod GC

Please remove the link if not.

Thanks.

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