General Discussion

When using the PortableApps Platform to update FileZilla Portable, the Platform issues the following error message:

PortableApps.com Platform
The downloaded copy of FileZilla Portable is not valid and can not be
installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other
network issue. Please try running the updater again when complete.

Running the updater again results in the same error message.

It would be nice if....
--The portable apps sweet ACTUALLY hijacked the host pc so as to assume a temporary identity as a portable pc app launcher.

--that while hovering over the checklist of apps that your trying to decide on downloading would show a window with all the pertain ate details and compatibility's this program itself has.

--I seen apps that had app installers and uninstallers in it. Would it not be prudent to include this into the program?

I am a long time user of portableapps software, and this problem has boggled me for quite a while. Around December 2014, I started noticing network connectivity issues (not always consistent) with many of my portable apps:

Firefox - pages don't load sometimes. i get Content Encoding Error and Secure Connection Failed errors frequently.

Thunderbird - I use POP email for a few email addresses. Sometimes, when checking email, it shows that there are 1 out of x emails, but it only download a couple at a time. I have to re-send/receive to get all of them downloaded.

Hi.

I'm trying to add a new launcher in Portable Apps. What I did is create a copy of the already installed PortableApps\DOSBoxPortable folder.
The new folder name is PortableApps\Lemmings, and inside that new folder I renamed DOSBoxPortable.exe into Lemmings.exe.
Then, I edited PortableApps\Lemmings\Data\settings\dosbox.conf to add :

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
mount c \dos_apps
c:
c:\lemmings\vgalemmings

Does anyone know if and how to download Zotero to my flashdrive?

Just a heads up that SIW Portable has been retired from the PortableApps.com App Store and won't be available in the platform's app store or updater. The publisher decided to cease making freeware personal versions available. The version we have from 2011 will still be available for direct download from our site for the time being but will not function on Windows 8, 8.1 or 10. It is no longer supported by the publisher or by PortableApps.com.

PortableApps.com now hosts more than 347 official apps in it's library! A big thank you to all of the developers and John who made PortableApps what it is today! Let's have another great year of PortableApping!

~Theren

I use Firefox Portable at work but unfortunately don't have the necessary admin rights to update flash. Unfortunately new versions of Firefox don't seem to include the most up to date version by default.

Is there anyway of updating flash manually?

Hi

A friend gave me a flash disk with folders that are EXE. They were originally normal MP3 and Jpeg files inside the folders. I am not sure what happened and why they are now EXE but I would like to retrieve them. These folders are from 2004. Any idea why it happened and how it could be fixed.

Has anybody else experienced problems with these two from FF 35.0 onward?

I'm not certain when the problems began, but sometime after the New Year I started having problems mainly with the two programs cited crashing. If I try to restart, they crash again. I asked at the Mozilla forums but nobody seemed to know very much about Portable Apps.

I have also had the same thing happen with GIMP and Inkscape which makes me think maybe there is a problem with the platform.

If I delete and reinstall the problem programs, they work once, or maybe twice without crashing.