General Discussion

I thought it would be helpful to create a list of programs that can be compacted using the PortableApps.com AppCompactor. I know that the PortableApps hosted here have been compacted prior to being posted. I was wondering if we could create a list of other programs that the AppCompactor can compress without negative effects (program won't launch after being compacted, etc.)

I am using a 4GB card (for now) with a Truecrypt container taking all but maybe 200mb. Using geek.menu with everything inside the encrypted container. When it launches, it start aMSN messenger and RocketDock. I want to have a program that will kill them, then the Portable apps menu, then un-mount the true crypt container and eject the disk. Is that possible?

Thanks

Now that you're making the icons for all PAF.exe files look the same--the PortableApps.com favicon with a little USB stick--instead of the app icon, we're gonna wind up with a folder full of sameness icon-wise... just makes it somewhat harder to differentiate between what you're looking for and what you're not. (I'll have to resort to actually reading the names of the files now!) Mostly, though, it gives the impression that you think the app being in PAF format is more important than the app itself.

Not preferred... I'm just sayin'.

Is PortableApps.com a 501(c)(3) or equivalent entity that would make donations US tax deductible?

On PortableApps.com, the layout breaks when there is a long string of text with no spaces. Like here. You could put a p{word-wrap:break-word;} in your CSS to fix this.

NOTE: This should work in IE, Safari, and Opera (I assume Chrome also). It will work in the next version of Firefox.

I've had issues before with this but, I pretty much forgot about it when I got my own laptop. It seems that the computers at my College Library (and possibly others as well) don't like it when an external drive is formatted as NTFS. Before when I used these computers frequently I ended up reformatting the drive using a virtual machine I'd set up shortly before hand. Thing is I had to reformat again and I didn't have my VM setup to hand the job. The Drive is more than 32GB so the built in methods for Microsoft refuse to work.

I want to be able to surf the internet without worry about the webpages downloading information onto my hard drive. I was wondering I using PortableApps could keep that from happening. My thought is that all the webpage information should be downloaded onto my flash drive rather than my hard drive. Am I understanding correctly how this works.

The search feature of the site is currently not functioning.
This is probably due to yesterday's outage.
https://portableapps.com/node/19676

As I think folks expected it to be slow and not down I note it here.

FYI

Tim

It's very odd - I thought at first it might be my USB drive being corrupted - so I ran multiple chkdsk's - and after "reinstalling" the updater beta tonight, I get the same errors - when i click on abort update, obviously it ends the program, but when I click no to close the updater, it says that the MD5 checksums of (insert any program here) do not match - your download may have been corrupted. Package (insert any path and *.paf.exe deleted.) any ideas as to why this is happening - or has been happening for quite some time?

We had a site outage today from approximately 5pm EDT (NY time) to midnight. This was due to the same issue as the last outtage, the live feed / battery / generator switching equipment that failed during the severe storms near our data center in Texas last week.

Today's issue caused a complete and sudden power loss on the database server which corrupted the database on which Drupal runs. There was some concern that we may have to restore to last night's backup, but we were able to restore the affected tables after a few hours of work.