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Carefull with NSIS..

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Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on February 29, 2008 - 3:23am

I was working on a way to COPY and REMOVE folders in Application Data when I accidentally removed ALL sub folders Application Data while I thought I removed only Application Data\testfolder.

Even my quick launch bar is now gone Sad

Some of NSIS are very sketchy and googling didn't help either. Well I found a 'solution' but that wiped my whole Application Data folder clean. I have no idea how to restore it or what will happen if I reboot...

association with rar/zip files

Submitted by gugudl on February 28, 2008 - 12:40pm

Is there anyway to make portableapps open rar/zip files?
in my pen drive is better to keep the files compressed instead .exe. because that way, i can safe some space.Files .exe are bigger than .zip/.rar.So would better i add files .rar/.zip in the main menu but as far i know i can't do that due the file association with .exe or .paf.exe.
any idea?

and sorry for my bad english.

thanks all

What do you recommend?

Submitted by typhoonikan on February 27, 2008 - 6:50pm

I'm looking for a program that will password protect anyone from accessing my UBS drive. I'm a teacher, and grades, reports, etc are on my usb drive. So if a student took it from me, it would at least like to have the security of the kid not being able to open the usb drive without a password. Is there a portable program like this that I could use?

also, I was wondering if there was a portable keylogger?

Suggestion for the 'What is a portable app' page

Submitted by RogerL on February 27, 2008 - 4:16pm

I thought something like the following ought to be on the page. I know it's obvious but there's mileage in spelling it out?

These are big advantages to me - not very well worded I know, but you get the idea.

And last but not least

  • No setup/install in Windows required
  • No multiple copies on multiple PCs to maintain
  • No installs required of favourite apps when get a new PC, a new hard drive or need to reformat and reload OS

Images in RSS feeds

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Submitted by Cheetah on February 27, 2008 - 1:35pm

I notice that the images rarely work when reading the RSS feeds, at least in Google Reader. It seems that there's a referrer check on them as the same images work fine from the actual portableapps.com pages. Not a big deal, but mildly annoying.

Drupal Problems

Submitted by MarkoMoeller on February 27, 2008 - 8:21am

Hi @all,
yesterday I set my language settings for markomlm to German.
All was ok (German Strings for all stuff).
But today, after loggin in I'm not able to see content or to modify my settings Sad ,only blank pages...

@John or somebody with drupal access: Please set the language settings for markomlm back to en.

Thank You!

Marko

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