General Discussion

hi all
i got a question for the developers.
i've downloaded several different ports of the same program, which have been ported by different people. so, same program, different porters, alas different ports.
now, they all halt on initiate.
remembering that this ported program used to work a couple of months ago (any port i downloaded) and now none of any diferent ports work, what can i do to understand where the problem lies? touphy

Hi,

It is possible to set the "check updates" option for all portable applications? I mean we use portableappsPlatform's Updater. We don't need the applications to check themselves.

Thank you!

Hi,

I would like to know how to install a portable app silently please.

ExecWait `"$PLUGINSDIR\$strCurrentAppDownloadFile" /DESTINATION="$strPortableAppsPath\" /AUTOCLOSE=true /HIDEINSTALLER=true /SILENT=true`

I have not succeeded in doing what the updater does based on the above code from the latest publicly available source.

Why?

Is this part of an attempt to prevent user from duplicating such behavior?

hi all
i've downloaded icoFX portable app and placed it into my program files folder, where i keep the rest of my..programs
icoFX limits me opening the app from within c:\program files
can i remove this limitation? why on earth is there this limitation in the first place?
cheers

As the subject states, I'd like to post an alpha test of PythonPortable, but it's not yet in PAF 3.0 format. Actually, I think it is PAF 0.98. Is this allowed, if the post states this, and my intention is to make it fully PAF 3.0 compliant?

I used the launcher from TaffinFoxcroft, from his 2.6 Dev Test 1 package. I made some changes to the appinfo.ini, and added some additional icons, to show up in the menu. I still have a lot of work to do yet, but wanted some user input before I do anything radical.

Hi, I use Windows 7 and Ubuntu. A lot of the portable apps I'm using are cross-platform: Firefox, Thunderbird, VLC, Pidgin, Inkscape, Gnumeric and more. I would like to plug in my USB drive whether I'm running Windows or Linux, and use my apps on either.

Is there a way to do this? Would I have to have portable Linux and Windows versions side-by-side on the drive, with both accessing the same configuration files? I would really like to know how to do this. Thanks.

Sharing the fact that my new Mushkin Ventura Pro 32G USB 3.0 runs portable apps like a hard drive -- in a USB 2.0 port! Not used to seeing Sunbird and Thunderbird come up in a flash.

On newegg it doesn't have any failures, but, warning, the 64G model does.

I reformatted it to NTFS, 512 byte sectors (recommended by Mushkin support for NTFS). NTFS damages less easily than the default FAT 32, and can take big files.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226227

Hi,

I can block any installed app to use internet connection on Windows 7 by giving the executable file's directory on Windows Firewall.
(http://maketecheasier.com/block-application-access-to-internet-from-cont... )

But the same thing does not work for portable apps.

Windows 7 can only block the apps which installed?

Is there any possibility to block the portable apps to use internet connection?

Thank you!

Hi,

I research on site but I could not found any answer. Is there 64 bit support for portableapps or not?

Thank you!

So I started an experiment . . . I am trying to use as many portable apps and as few installed apps on my Win7-64 as possible with all of these portable apps residing in dropbox. That way all of these apps are in the exact same state regardless of which computer I open them up on.