General Discussion

my flash drive crashed and burned the other night. lost 1GB of info.
i bought a u3 enabled flashdrive. i realize u3 has some free apps but does charges mostly for theirs. i support open source free software such as portableapps. my question is this.1 should i just leave u3 enabled on my flash and download free stuff. 2. or should i disable it? and if so, how do i do that? do i need to go buy another flashdrive? 3.can i use portable apps on a u3 enabled sandisk?
pros/cons/opinions solicited. thanks.

Hello sorry but im new to this i installed spotify to my portable apps stick and it works eureeka

Greetings all-

I've been using portable apps for years without a problem. But suddenly today, the admins at my school seem to have a problem with it.

I'm going to have a meeting with the principal and the school tech person to discuss it tomorrow.

Any tips on what to say to them about this?

If they still won't let me use portable applications, I'm just going to stop using school computers. Internet Explorer is horrible, Microsoft word and such take forever to load, everything is much too bloated. I also have my computer set up with all open-source software.

IDM released their editor and compare program in a PAF (non-U3) format today. I've tried the editor out out and am very happy with it.

The relevant page over on their website is:

http://www.ultraedit.com/products/mobility.html

From my standpoint, having a choice of RegEx engines alone has made this worthwhile.

Hi all,

Besides adding an "x" to the file extentions (ex: *.docx , *.xlsx , ...),
Office 2007 seems to make files completely unrecognisable by Open Office.
Is there a solution ?

many thanks

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also how do i get rid of the portable apps.com letter and the app circle

last week I transfer all my data into this portable apps...butI lost my data in this app.I cant find it any where...Can some one help me how to recover back the data

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was: need help here

I followed the link on the left to nominate PortableApps under the last category, "Most likely to change the way you do everything". It seemed the most appropriate one. Is that the one y'all chose as well? While the dev one was appropriate, I tend to view PortableApps.com as more a revolutionary force as opposed to usefulness. Because let's face it, the forks of the menu do more, and the apps themselves sometimes take a feature or two off to make it portable. They're not more useful than their installed counterparts, as for what they do.

PortableApps.com Update (November 11, 2008)

NOTICE: Scheduled Downtime: April 28 @10AM NY/EDT Time

They were important once upon a time but that is no longer the case. I'm not suggesting they be deleted, just not "stuck".