General Discussion

Hi all,

I have a portable USB Drive with tons of documents (text, PDF, MS Office) on it. Is there a portable app that buils a search index over the portable drive and has an interface to search that index? Preferred app would open PortableFirefox and displays the search result in the Browser, but any other user interface is fine, too.

Does this exist?

Thanks for Help

Martin

Im making a portable Apps CD i have this alredy...

Abi Word
Clam Win
NVU
PFF
nexuiz (Portablegame)
opera portable one use
terra im
Trillan
Port Wackget
foxit
spybot
quickburn
mandirana im

all with a autoran Pstart

Is it possible to set up the individual portable apps so that all of the settings for all the apps are stored in PortableApps\Data?

I have looked for what needs to be done for each portable app but cannot find the information. If someone can point me to this I would appreciate it.

Thank you.

- Rob

I would like a few opinions on some encryption software for a USB thumb drive. There are a lot of them out there and wanted to know what ones you guys suggest.

Does anyone know a way to make it possible to use a PNG file vs. a JPG file for the launch splash screens?

I've tried to edit the NSI file, and make all instances of .jpg into .png, but that didn't work. Any suggestions?

Hello,

I'm new to U3/PortableApps.com and I really like what you're doing! Espacially because I can use some of your apps or ideas for the BartPE-project on which I'm working also...

I've found nothing using the forum-search, so maybe one of you guys can tell me how I can start some PortableApps like ClamWin Portable over the U3-launchpad from my Kingston-U3-USB-stick?

I only found out how I can add U3P-files to the startup-panel - but how to add your selfextracing EXE-files?

Thanks a lot for any help and keep on your good work

manwald

I am looking to create a batch file / ini file to do the following

copy a file from my document folder (mylist)on my usb to a folder on the main computer.

and then at the end of the day copy the folder back with another batch file

could anyone help with this please?

I have a Seagate 6GB USB Portable HD. Is there any reason this could not be used to transport PortableApps?
Thank You,
fixit

I am writing a book about Open Source Politics, Economics and Ideology. There is a chapter on Portable Applications and I refer to the work of J. Haller.

I thought I had grasped the premise of this site, but am a little confused.

The best way to be brief about my point is to take the example of the PStart Launcher.

This is closed source, although free, in the sense of it being available for use without payment. There is another Launcher, called ASuite, that is Open Source (GPL).

Yet, PStart has been chosen to be promoted on this site instead of ASuite.

Meanwhile, the work evolved by Yadabyte, which is Open Source (GPL) is not promoted, because the source is not available.

Hi all,

I'm new here... just got wind of all the portable possiblities and really liking it. I've placed a bunch of apps and such on a 40gig portable drive, one of which is Thunderbird Portable. Being concerned with security since I routinely leave passwords and account info in my inbox, I looked for encryption options. I really like Cryptainer and other options that mount as a drive but found that it required admin rights, which can obviously be an issue.

I'm offering up a free solution that can be modified to suit your own needs. I used PStart because of it's ability to launch programs on start and exit. In addtion I use EncryptOnClick because it has a command line interface. You can find it here: http://www.2brightsparks.com/freeware/freeware-hub.html