General Discussion

Be clear that I LIKE PA and have supported it. So the following is meant as constructive criticism...and I acknowledge that not everyone will feel the same.

Some Portable-Apps are specific to Windows OS but not on Mac/Linux OS.
Solution of this problem can be using Docker Virtuel Environment as a Virtual Machine but very light.
https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/

I tried a method to install very ease Portable-Apps into Docker Image through Wine emulator.
https://github.com/marchandd/docker_index/

I hope that the big black surface, reminding of an undertaker’s site, is a temporary option, and that you will revert to the nice usual design. I hope...

I no longer regard Chrome as a PA, I use it quite happily in more than one work situation where I am performing a role. If someone wants to gather the mixed data from many people using a work system then they can feel free to do so. I think some people look for on-line stuff just because they are bored or want to play with google / chrome. That is none of our business.

What we should be wondering about is at what point, given the continuum, does Chrome stop being a PA ?

I think if someone said,

"Hey, there's this new browser, Chrome, can u guys make it portable?"

today

Hello !

With this problem : https://portableapps.com/node/43542 i'm oblige (f*king boring) to change Google Chrome Portable by Chromium Portable !

I already done all my settings and extension again : 2 hours (boring)

But now Flash don't work !

Of course i know it's not include with chromimum !

Hi,

I use many portable App from https://portableapps.com/ and i don't have so much problem !

Since i used Chrome Version 40.0.2214.115 for Windows, Multilingual Portable, 2 times i already lost my settings with this result : http://cdn.techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Chrome-automatic-sett...

The 1st time i think it was a mistake of me, then i set again manualy chrome, and extentions and i saved each step of the config in a solid zip file to prevent again this problem :

00-ChromeBase.zip
01-ChromeConfig.zip
02-ChromeConfig-Extentions.zip

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.