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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Latest Releases & News on homepage

Submitted by Emka on November 3, 2023 - 7:12am

It's been like this for a few days already:
In the bottom left corner of the homepage, the lists "App Releases & News" and "Just New Apps" under the headline Latest Releases & News are no longer lists but just links.
I don't know if this was changed on purpose, if it's a site bug or if it's my browser's (or an add-on's) fault. In any case, I find it more complicated now to look for updates since I don't use the platform launcher.

Which of the 14 download buttons, is the real download buttons ?

Submitted by shodanx on October 20, 2023 - 4:55pm

Hello,

I wanted to download 7-zip
7-zip does not offer a portable version in zip

So I searched for 7-zip 23.01 portable and found

https://portableapps.com/news/2023-06-27--7-zip-portable-23.01-released

I went to that page but there are 14 download buttons.

Are they all the same thing.

I think I will go to the first one and run whatever executable it downloads

Can't unpin Apps

Submitted by dlfisher on October 20, 2023 - 3:52pm

Sorry if posting this in the wrong place - do not see a Bug Report forum
When you pin an app to the Taskbar (via right click on any app/context menu), the app is pished to front page, but there does not seem to be an option to unpin the app (other than removing and re-installing). Once Pin'd, the option to Pin is greyed out int he context menu. Needs to be a checked option that you can uncheck.
I am on Win11 (or Win10) platform running current version, and this has been true for years, so applies to many builds.

What is SVM File and what to do with it?

Submitted by alex1908 on October 18, 2023 - 9:27am

Hello everyone,

i have an important app for me, which comes as SVM file and it supposed to be portable app file. Since I am pretty new in this portable app world. I have no clue! Can anyone help me what to do with this file? I already sucessfully installed PortableApp on my Mac M1 but couldn't figure it out how to operate this file.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Donation problem

Submitted by Alleycat2 on October 10, 2023 - 12:43am

Hi, In trying to make a donation I keep getting this error "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country. Return to Rare Ideas, LLC". Not sure what the problem is with PayPal. Sending from New Zealand. Please keep up the great work, and will donate when permitted.

Testing Ad Placement and Revenue

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 6, 2023 - 12:48pm

For a short time, you may see noticeably more ads on the site. This is occurring as an ad management firm is testing placements of ads across the site to see what works and what does not. I apologize for the inconvenience during this process. I'm attempting to see if recovering any of the 66% drop in ad revenue is possible with a different provider.

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