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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Best backup/synchronisation program?

Submitted by shnbwmn on December 28, 2015 - 3:32am

After a recent hard drive failure, and my own failure to make regular daily backups, I'm looking for a good, reliable program which can one-way sync one hdd to another. I used to use SyncBackFree, and it served the purpose well, but it has one major problem for me. Let's say we have a hard drive with folders a, b, c, d and e on them (large folders, with many subdirectories), and I rename folder b to something else. SyncBackFree won't simply rename that folder; it will replace the entire thing. Obviously with large amounts of content that is a problem.

Power outage and text file got garbled

Submitted by trust on December 23, 2015 - 8:25am

I had a power outage and my kind of important text file got garbled.

All '[NUL]', when opening with Notepad 2 Portable. Is there any chance to recover it?

The bad news is, I accidentally have overwritten my backup from a few days back with the garbled one. Now I truly need to recover it. What (portable) app can you recommend for this job?

I tried all the different encodings in Notepad 2 (portable) to no avail. Maybe the proper solution - if there is any - is something completely different.

Pic-mir client - Программа для скриншотов

Submitted by sivilla on December 21, 2015 - 4:23pm

Программа "Pic-mir client" предназначена для снятия скриншотов или загрузки изображений
для последующей публикации их в интернет, хранении на бесплатном фотохостинге с возможностью заработка.

Running apps without Menu closing after each app launch? [SOLVED]

Submitted by garretthylltun on December 16, 2015 - 4:02pm

Hello,

I'd like to know if there's a way to keep the menu open until I'm done launching the apps that I want to use. I need to run a few apps daily and it's kind of a bummer having to reopen the menu each time for the apps I need to run.

Any suggestions appreciated, thanks in advance,
~Garrett

Malware in DTask Manager Portable?

Submitted by PortableGood on December 14, 2015 - 4:54am

Eleven antivirus engines are reporting that DTask Manager Portable contains malware. Most are reporting it contains a backdoor trojan.

The file is located at http://downloads.portableapps.com/portableapps/dtaskmanagerportable/DTas...

The antivirus tools reporting malware in this file include Avira, McAfee, Symantec, and TrendMicro.

The SHA256 hash is fda36c68742e7cf30d51e2bd23cf348d921463ab8a30123fce874a2dc60a9a1c

AquaSnap new version

Submitted by PortableGood on December 14, 2015 - 3:24am

I apologize if this is the wrong forum to post this.

AquaSnap Portable, when run, reports there is a new version.

Do others agree that auto-updaters for apps should be turned off by default so that "phone home" calls are not automatically made?

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