General Discussion

doesn't matter wich portable app i want to start. Theres alway a message from the program in the right edge of the desktop and it seems to start. but then theres just a windows message which says that the programm doesn't work! this happens with EVERY program i tried and i tried a lot!!

i hope some of you can help me.

What is the best format for a USB flash drive?

ntfs, fat16, fat 32, exfat? (sorry linux, the world is not formatted to accept you just yet, but hopefully soon)

Also does file allocation size have an impact?
Is one format better for smaller drives (

In the beginning, PortableApps all had SettingsDirectory setting that allowed you to move the Data directory for each portable app. Lately I have had to recompile some NSIS scripts to have them read that settings from the .ini files.

With the 2.0 scripts, the ability to customize the Data directory location seems to have been removed altogether. Is that correct?

If not, how do I customize the location of the Data directory via .ini files?

mz

I'm new on these PortableApps.com Forums. I barely joined yesterday.
I already mentioned this issue over at the Support Forums, but haven't seen any response. I don't know if it hasn't been seen over there by those who are best able to look into and fix the problem.

I tried 3 times yesterday to download Opera 10.62 Rev 2 and on all 3 attempts, I encountered an error at around the 300 plus KBytes range of the download. I wound up having to download OperaUSB 10.62 over at the source that Opera recommends.

I'd rather use the PortableApps.com version as it makes installation easier.

Dialog box says "utorrent.exe could not be found". I think there is a misnaming; the actual app is called utorrentportable.exe. Renaming it didn't help, though.

I was using the PortableApps.com Updater, when I got errors when downloading the updates: this happened with Opera, Opera (Test), and GIMP. All said "File not found" with the error URL. My guess is that the URL was wrong in the INI.

Please fix it. Thanks!

HTML is probably the most used electronic file on Earth! Every web page is built from the HTML format, and there are trillions of web pages! And of course, the most logical tool in any word creation program is spell check; the ABC’s of any word software program! Now, following this simple logic, you would think that every program that could open and/or edit any HTML file would (naturally) have a spell check function, right? Wrong!

The latest status release is now on John T. Haller's blog here: https://portableapps.com/blogs/johnhaller/2011-02-01_status_update

Greetings all and welcome to a long-overdue PortableApps.com Status Update. It's been way too long since we've sat around and discussed the state of things, so, with some prodding from a couple devs, I thought I'd go over where things are.

New App Releases

As posted in the new PortableApps.com Status Update: "I'd like to finalize a new release team and get working on a way to collaborate and get things moving. The goal will be to have a set group of people who can 'sign off' on apps going from dev test to pre-release to final moving forward. Tools-wise, we can do a custom forum, email list, wiki page, IRC and/or Drupal's issue tracker to ensure that things move forward and don't get left behind."

I had installed acronis (to backup a virtual machine) and monitored it with Regshot.
There is a problem:

The installation created an entry in:

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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers\{C539A15A-3AF9-4c92-B771-50CB78F5C751}]

Name: (Deafult)
Type: REG_SZ
Data: empty
********

this entry adds "Include in Nonstop Backup" to the context menu of \*\ (all files)