General Discussion

Probabaly for most known, but I am a rather newbie to this portable experimenting.

Now trying to set some things like pgp and gpg to work on the stick. They mostly use either some directions for directorires from windows or sometimes a fixed path is OK (like older pgp)
But the stick does no know its root path in advance.

What do I have to enter in possible bat or similar set up file to point the software to its ususal directories if it is no able to search for all in its own dir by defoult?

I've encountered some installer who ask the user for an install location. This might seem a little weird. I't probably possible for the installer to correctly determine where the portable apps need to be installed. (probaby by finding the portable apps menu).

In case of an additional PAM copy on HDD they mostly are in a subfolder I would imagine. On USB Flash Drives they probably in the root.

Maybe these installers I've seen had some older install app or something.

Having a special portable apps version is all cool and so on, but I start to wonder why the original apps don't get PAM compliant. Okay, I admit the folder structure is maybe overly complex and an extra launcher app is not what they had in mind when developing, but to have just an app that does not fiddle in registry, does not put stuff in user folder or windows system, features all dependancies needed in its own folder.

I found this while looking through the fora at the portable freeware site and thought I'd bring it to your attention. It is not a request to put it in PAF format. But some of you may know someone who could benefit from it.

This is an application that reads and pronounces the content of a computer screen in a number of languages. It is primarily of benefit to the visually impaired.

There are both installed and portable versions available on the site.

http://www.nvda-project.org/

Just to let you know, some of the recent comments I have seen have timestamps in the future and will show up on the tracker as 0 mins ago until the time is reached.
It seems to be an hour ahead.

I've posted a proposed "Development Test Release" splash screen for comments. The idea is that this splash will be used for early alpha and beta packages of apps before we get to the "Pre-Release" phase, during which it will have its own custom splash. It's a greyscale version of a standard splash... of the new standard splashes that you'll start to see on apps tomorrow, anyway.

Development Test Release Splash Screen

To make things easier, I thought I'd make a chart of portable applications in development, who the developer is, what stage it's in, etc. So, I'll add to this list over time, and you can let me know what you're doing to. But since PortableApps.com is really planning to open to outside developers and make things easier for them, I thought this would stop multiple application efforts at once. Maybe John has an idea like this soon, but this will get us started on it.

flash drive life

I am not sure if this is the correct forum so if it is not please in form me

All flash drives a certain life expectancy the more you use them the more wear and tear.

My question is how much wear and tear does running portableapps cause to your flash drive?
thanks

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Beta download page

Would it be possible (or a good idea) to have a place that list all beta-test software for download? I am aware of the potential dangers, and realize that it must be compartmentalized from regular releases. The issue is that searching the beta forum for programs that I might be interested in is time consuming and not effective. I guess I thought that something like the theory behind the AMO sandbox (although maybe not the practice) might be appropriate. Ideas? (Braces for onslaught.)

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portable apps and privacy

It`s not a secret that you can un-delete files very effective with special programs for that unless you used secure deletion.

Let`s assmue you travel with your usb stick or usb harddrive. You trust the admin not to have installed keyloggers or something similar on purpose.

Now if starting apps from your usb device which was not portable by default but have been ported to portable by a launcher (like portableapps.com is doing so).

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