General Discussion

I'm most likely going to get some bad comments about this but the way I look at it is, if you have firefox you have a pdf reader in it, or at least you can download it just like a flash player and I'm sure that someone may argue that you'd want a separate one for offline use but I would be fairly sure you can open pdf's when not connected to the net.

But please if there is a blatantly obvious reason to have foxit of sumatra, tell me.
Its more curiosity then an arguement

Kilian

I have Win XP SP 2 at home. After using and shutting down all portable applications, when I select remove hardware option and click the pen drive and ask for it to be stopped, it is unable to do so. This did not happen earlier when I did not have portable apps in my pen drive. I have to shut down the PC to remove the pen drive, for fear of corrupting the files. Kindly tell me what can be done about this.

I get to like 65% installed and then a window comes up 7-zip Data error in creating about 200 files and then i have a close option i close it and delete it and reinstall but same problem again. Any ideas or suggestions? I didn;t know what forum to post in because this is a multiple portable app problem.

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I have a IRC Server setup running UnrealIRCd with Anope Services and a few other add-ons. If you or anyone else here is interested in creating or congregating in a channel specifically dedicated to the portableapps.com site/scene, I would be more than happy to accommodate.

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Since the interest seems to be showing a bit, I went ahead a created a private room on the server and coded a page with information on how to join/connect.

Hi all,

I recently discovered this website, and got some real nice and handy apps running on my USB-stick.
I especially like the XAMPP module. Keep up the good work!

To business;
Since i'm a programmer myself, PHP/VB/Delphi, I want to contribute to portableapps.com.
At the moment I have a great idea for a portable application. After reading the "Development" area, still some questions arise.

1) How do I actually get my app up and running on your guys' site?

Hi Dudes,

I have ordered my third thumb drive. Every time I forget to unplug it from the PC at school and if I notice it that I forget it, it is already token by somebody.

Is there a way that I have to unplug it before I can log-off in Windows for example with a prompt or another application which tells me when I log-off on the PC that I mustn't forget the flash drive?

Okay guys I am not demented but it is easy to forget when your head is full of other stuff at school.

Best wishes,
Jordi

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App Links Updated

I have been using the Portable Apps application for about two weeks now. All of the complaints I had about the original app have been resolved with version R21b. I highly recommend trying it. The one that comes with the suite is very limited and not nearly as usable as R21b.
I use my USB thumb drive (8gb) all day now! We are not allowed to install any software on our computers at work, now I don't need to! I have most of the apps you have available, and have been adding my own too.

New to the forum but have been a long-time reader. I have recently looked at the "What's on your portable#2?" thread and noticed a number of users who have a large number of portable apps on relatively small drives.

I was wondering, do most of you keep portable apps on a USB drive and documents? Or put all your apps on one drive and keep another one free for documents/data?

I'm asking because I have quite a few apps on my 1GB USB drive (600MB free) but was considering putting the apps on a 512MB USB drive I have and keeping the 1GB free for documents/data.

Is there an option, configuration file I can add, or something coming in a future release that will allow me to set a working directory for an application that wasn't installed using a paf.exe installer?

I have an application or two that run perfectly from portable devices, but I can't run them through PortableAppsMenu because it apparently runs the applications using the PortableAppsMenu as the working directory.

I am not really interested, nor do I have the time, to create an installer. I would just like to be able to assign a working directory to a menu item.