General Discussion

I just read "Safe Portable App-ing", and the rules there are so cruel that I don't believe I can follow it strictly.

I appreciate your assertion that "Whenever you plug your portable drive into an unknown computer, you should assume that it may now be infected with a virus", but I cannot accept that I need to virus scanning my USB stick and keep those backups all the time.

I have a program that requires a file to be in the WINDOWS directory. Is there any way using NSIS to trick that program into thinking that file (which i have on the drive) is in the WINDOWS directory?

thanks in advance.

(sorry if I put this post in the worng forum. I'm new here)

elyea

Hi there,

I am one of the maintainers of the open source medical record app GNUmed (wiki.gnumed.de). It's written in python and is portable. I made it run from an USB drive and have modified the official Abiword installer / launcher to include it into the portable apps launcher.

What is the policy to make it a member of the portableapps program family ? I mean for it to be possible/legal to use the portable apps splash screen like the ones for the programs on the website and maybe get a website like this https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable

What are the downsides of UPXing the EXEs?

Im guessing the app menu is UPX'd as its over 1mb when compiled but what about the other apps, Firefox for example can be upx'ed down from 7mb to 3mb. Im guessing there is a reason its left as is, either legal or technical.

Edit: Just found out UPXing an exe is a modification so in the case of FF breaks the license agreement. Understandable.

Anybody got any opinions on the fastest 2GB usb drive out there? I have tried the following:

OCZ Rally2 (faster than the others, no speed demon and design is lacking)

Titanium Cruzer (2nd fastest to Rally2, nice design)

Corsair Voyager (patheticly slow)

Seems I have screwed up. I edited the Autorun file and now eveytime I try to get into the drive I get a message that states it is not formatted and do I want to format. I click No. Is there anyway to get by this? I have tried to use the command prompt to copy the files, but I get an error.

Is there anything I can do, or am I just going to have to bite the bullet and take the loss of the info on the drive?

Dave

I looked forward for 2 months for new apps, or an update of some existing apps. E.g. miranda portable has released the new version and thsis happend a few monts ago! Are you planing your big comeback with an beautiful ap as known of you or is this project going to die?? This shouldn't sound like a Reproach, but I was just sadly I heard nothing of new apps for more then 2 months. Come back, please!

I just discovered Mobile Apps
Looks very much like PAM but requires .NET Framework so I couldn't test it.
Are PAM and MobileApps related in some way?

Is There Any Way To Run This On A PSP?

This just started happening. I remove the usb drive per normal, plug it back in later, one or more portable apps are gone, ie, I still see then entry in Pstart, but no icon. I go to explorer to look within the specific app directory for the files, and all the files are gone. This happens randomly and with differing apps. There are no viruses on the usb drive. Thx for any help.