General Discussion

First - This may have already been discussed but I tried "Find" and "search" on forums home page and found no search ability.

Can you really put a defragmenter on a portable device?
A badly fragmented drive may take hours to defrag and you might want to remove the portable drive and use it elsewhwere before defrag is finished.

Does the portable app copy the defrag program to a temp directory on the drive to be defragmented before beginning defrag? I've looked at the various doc pages and no indication of this.

Ever since Opera discontinued it's proprietary web engine..
i've been confused as to which browser to use ..
i haven't had to think about this in many years..

Just wanted to say thank you for the multiple browser options you folks have posted..

Really loving IronPortable .. the launcher.ini file configuration is very convenient ..

Why cant I open any of the folders on the right side of the PA window. i wanted to paste some files in Documents, but nothing seems to work ?

check this
http://www.codelathe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5348

Hi,

I see that many files is leaving under C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming by portable apps even they close properly.

I know that user-name\AppData\Roaming directory is using for user-data files (it equals of /home/user-name directory on linux).

So if I open an app which is installed locally on machine, it will resume with portable-apps.com user datas?

And out of curiosity... I wanna ask what is the differences between folders:

C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Local
C:\Users\user-name\AppData\LocalLow
C:\Users\user-name\AppData\Roaming
C:\ProgramData

Hi all,

I'm looking for something that will associate the files with the programs on my portableapps devices (only while the platform is running). I think eXpresso 1.3.1 is the latest and greatest but all the links that I can find are dead. I also did hear that file association was going to be integrated with the platform but I can't seem to find any information on whether this has happened or not.

Could anybody point me in the right direction please?

Thanks,
Rochey

hi.

As it stands using the built in download-er:
- Issue 1. I have to click each program individually, (There is no selection of a whole category)
- Issue 2. The auto installer reports Inaccurately when cancelling an installation (On its License Agreement Window): it says:
- "install Complete" rather than "Cancelled".

Issue 3. The built-in download-er seems to vary in speed compared to downloading via web browser.

Alternatively by using the site to download apps:
- Issue 1. I cannot download a bundle of programs at once.

As a suggestion:

hi.

Would it be possible to change the tags used in webpages please?

or would this be detrimental?

Currently it is:
''Outdated Official Portable Applications | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives''

Which results in firefox suggesting a saveAs file name of:
"Outdated Official Portable Applications _ PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB, portable and cloud drives.htm"

Thanks for your time.

hi,
I have searched the forum and found a few discussions about 64bit programs.

I fully support maintaining both 32bit and 64bit versions where possible of each program.

However the only way I can see to identify which programs have 64bit versions via browsing the portableapps.com website is to browse every single page for each program.

Is there another way?
(aside from downloading all programs using the PA platform on a 64bit machine)

Thanks.

p.s
if not: could this be accepted as a usability suggestion please?

I'm debating switching PeerBlock Portable from the 1.1 stable branch to the 1.1+ beta branch. 1.1 was last updated in November 2010. There are now some issues with lists only being allowed to update weekly and the old 1.1 doesn't handle that as well. 1.1+ automatically switches to weekly and included improved error messaging around when a blocked update happens. It does switch to VC++ 2008 and drops Win2K support (not that we support it anymore) but just something to include. Thoughts?