General Discussion

I have a question to you programmers...

You know that encryption need access rights so it is not really portable...

But everybody is requesting to password protect info in Pdrives...

So, is it posible to have portableapps and documents folders in a password protected 7zip file and when launching the Pmenu ask for password automatically, open the 7zip run apps, etc, and when closing, save changes in the password protected 7zip, erase the opened one with a secure deleter automatically (and then eject the drive)?

Hi all!
I'm looking for an app or a method to hide files in my USB Stick, regardless to my host PC (so just changing attributes it's not enough). I don't need encryption- just hiding some ugly configuration files.
Thanks, Barak

I noticed XAMPP on the software list, but the download doesn't have a paf.exe.
Is this a big deal?

The article was posted back in January of 2007, but I just came across it today. It's from FOSSwire.com

link to article:
FOSSwire - Portable Apps - free software you can take with you

I have two sticks I use, a 1GB and a 2GB. The 1GB was always just a stick. The 2GB one is a Memorex TravelDrive U3 that I used the removal tool on to remove the U3 system (good riddance!). With the 1GB I never have the following problem, ever. With the former U3 drive (2GB) intermittently when plugging it into a Vista machine Vista complains that the drive must be formatted to be used. However, it works fine. It just does not use the autorun.inf. Sometimes it works fine. I even backed up my drive once and let Vista format it, made no difference.

This topic has been replaced by another one:
https://portableapps.com/node/13391

Please continue the discussion there

I'm putting up a thread so we can discuss the apps to include in the next release of the PortableApps.com Suite. All versions include what will be referred to as the PortableApps.com Platform (menu, backup, custom icons, autorun). The Standard package currently includes:

Just wanted to post a note that I set start.portableapps.com live today. The menu links to it when you select to Search the Web. It's a simple page similar to the default Firefox homepage that allows you to search Google. PortableApps.com gets a share of all ad revenue generated by searches done through the page.

So, if you'd like to set it as your homepage, that would be cool, too

I have just noticed something a bit disturbing: not only are my portableapps.com account details open to anyone who wants to see them, but any search engine is free to index them!

Please, restrict the access to account information to people logged in, or at least set those pages not to be indexed (either using robots.txt or the <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> tag).

Thanks

Can one transfer their portableapps suite with all the applications from one removable drive take for e.g. 2 GB USB Flash Drive to another one e.g. 4 G.B. USB Flash Drive by cutting and pasting the portableapps folders from one removable drive to another? is it possible?

I know that this topic has been addressed many times, but I am going to tell how I was able to have a working Eclipse on my thumbdrive without a JRE installed on the host computer.

EasyEclipse (http://www.easyeclipse.org/site/home/) is a customized distibution of Eclipse that comes with everything needed for the application to run (JRE included).