General Discussion

Hi,

New to portable apps. Have a question, and it may be a bit of a beginners question.

I also am in the process of making a USB that is a toolkit, e.g. using YUMI from pendrivelinux (which are not portable apps.)

Is there any disadvantage in installing PortableApps on such a USB stick rather than a simple off-the-shelf USB? Will everything run ok from the point of view of the Windows puter that navigates to the portable apps folder?

I just updated Xnview and cannot rename files. This is because the xnview.ini file is now under the apps folder rather than in the data folder.

I thought that all user settings stayed under the data folder and not the app folder?

Thanks

With most likely wanting to migrate as many of their apps to portable apps as possible, it kind of amazes me that there is no main forum or sticky thread or main help page dedicated to just that subject.

Having a hard time importing utorrent settings for example.

A couple examples to start things off:
For Mozilla Firefox === this was working fine until l made FF my default browser - #(*()*)(*#@.
Copy the profile from within:
C:\Users\ZZZ\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles
Paste it in within:
Q:\PortableApps\FirefoxPortable\Data
Rename existing Profile folder to ProfileBU

background: I've been using FreeFileSync portable (the author's version not the PA one) for a few years now. Before that I used DirSync Pro. I've a grumble with FFS about it not writing logs at the moment so I took another look at DirSync Pro latest.

I like it. It is natively portable (though not in PA form).

Possible negs are that it is java so appears slower than FFS and munches quite a lot of memory on my XP era system, but that shouldn't bother people with shinier kit.

Hi,

I'm using the Portable Notepad++ and am having some trouble after hibernation if the program was opened. Right after the hibernation on the first use of the opened program, it crashes. When I start it again, I get a message that it needs to clean up some files from the crash and does so and ends. When I start it again, my settings under the menu Settings/Style Configurator is lost, but changes made to Settings/Preferences are still in place.

I've noticed that new versions of CherryTree and XnView are available from the developers, but the current versions are not on PortableApps.

Is it appropriate to mention this here, or is it known, and just no time to update them? It's okay either way!

Windows XP Home
gig of ram
2 dvd r/w 's
2 80 gig HD's
1 External 500 Gig HD
and yes, a working 1.5 floppy drive.
Wireless mouse
all on a Dell 2400 Dimension PC.

If it's possible, Developers... Can you recommend a collection of Apps to install with the Portable Apps platform for a good rescue USB flash drive. Example?

Portable Apps (so far)
Claimwin
Iobit uninstaller
Iobit unlocker
etc?

I am interested in the utorrent portable app. But when trying to download it I get an exe file. Do I have to use a downloader or something to get the actual zip file? Or is there a way to download just the zip file?

My need for portable apps is simple. I'm on different computers all the time, and most of them I do not have admin rights to. So a portable app does me no good unless it's REALLY portable, and doesn't try to write anything or need admin permissions.

Is that just not doable? Or if such exist, how do I know which ones don't require admin? The case in point is I just tried Revo uninstaller. It installed ok, but won't run at all without admin. I know, this is pretty deep stuff, but it's not the only so-called "portable" app I've had this problem with.

This Apps we can not download, because after click on download the page reloaded and reloaded...and this is a server error from portablepps? why we can not download this apps? what is the issue or bug?

McAfee Stinger Portable

µTorrent Portable

Hedgewars Portable

FreeMat Portable

K-3D Portable

fre:ac Portable

Paul Stretch Portable

WaveShop Portable

LAN Messenger

File Zilla

cdrtfe Portable

RedNotebook Portable

Scribus Portable

Sigil Portable

Task Coach Portable

KchmViewer Portable

KeepNote Portable

Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition