General Discussion

Hi all,

I really like the idea of Portable Apps, and have been using Firefox and Thunderbird on my USB stick for a while now. However, I'm starting to think that this method of using external/additional hardware like USB sticks to run your applications is not the future of portable apps. As Google would probably tell you, hosted applications is the way forward, and I agree. I don't want to have to plug in my USB stick, along with all my keys that are attached to it, just to check my email, especially when I don't really want my boss to notice I'm doing it!

I have a A-DATA My Flash USB 2.0 USB 2 GB Drive, but it took me forever to install the portableapps suite. I also notice there is a decent delay on using portable firefox. i have only tried it once though, so im not sure if this is always the case. do i need a better thumbdrive?

Looks like we have a new false positive. It's Comodo again (it's had issues before). It's a false positive in every app it appears (it's finding a virus that didn't even exist at the time the files were posted). If you use Comodo, please post details of the file and virus and be sure to contact Comodo to inform them of their error.

I recently got a OCZ 4GB Rally 02. I was replacing an old 1GB drive that was starting to corrupt a lot of files.

I loaded up the new 4GB drive and started using portable apps. However for no good reason files were becoming corrupted. I always do a proper unmount so this made no sense.

So today I reloaded the drive from scratch, formatted FAT32. Periodically throughout the day I would do a chkdsk on the drive. The drive had corrupted files even though I did not eject/unmount the drive. Even more bothering was that corrupted files were in apps that I had not even used today.

Is there a list to post and/or check which drives do not work with PASuite (PortableApps Suite) ?

I just purchased 10 (ten) 4gb SanDisk Cruzer Minis and PASuite won't load and I'm stuck with garbage USB drives.

I purchased them because the price was good and the fact that I've had excellent results with the Cruzer Micro.

Would think a MySQL database for good/bad drives could be very useful and save a lot of headaches.

Regards,
Clinton

hello,

I'm so waiting for linux that i'm very keen to ask: may be somebody knows when potable linux will be realised?

I know this has been discussed; I am puzzled by the discussion. I notice that the official PortableApps launcher installs an autorun.inf in root. I can't get it to be seen and acted upon. What am I missing here? I can't imagine this would be so hard to adjust, even if XP is not friendly to the idea (clearly, the U3 folks dealt with this).

were do you get Delphi?

Let me explain what's going on. When I plug my USB hard drive into a library computer, it allows me full read and write permissions, but only until I unplug it. After I unplug, I can't modify or delete the files and/or folders. All the computers in the library run Windows XP Professional. I think the problem has something to do with read write permissions between all the computers in the library, because all the file and folder names on the drive have a blue font color instead of the usual black.

Freeware & Open Source

Are you an enthusiastic PortableApps user? Ever wanted to rename the PortableApps menu entries? Ever wanted to create PortableApps menu entries to non-PortableApps (e.g. SecureCRT etc) applications which won't install into the PortableApps folder structure? Ever wanted to create PortableApps menu entries which execute a batch file? Well now you can with portableapps-menu-workaround.exe How does it work? The portableapps-menu-workaround.exe makes copies of itself while 'cloning' the original icons & exe info from the target application to run.