PortableApps.com Platform

Hey all:

First time poster and I enjoy PortableApps and love the work that has been done to make it easy to install and transport your most used apps. That said, I am having trouble installing PortableApps on some USB drives that I own. Their sizes are 1GB, 4GB, and 32GB. They are all formatted to NTFS. This is the message I get when trying to install:

The device you have selected to install to does not have enough free space for this app."

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for the support.

Is it possible to assign multiple category for the same application ?

Example: 7-zip is archiver (i need to assign in utilities as well as archivers,compressers etc...)

if not possible i am requesting this feature to be added in further releases.

Is there a way to change the PortableApps platform symbol?

On Win XP SP3, on an Ubuntu with Wine and on Win 8 (ighit) I did not find a way to change the symbol to be shown after start for the PA platform in the tray(s).

Why?
I sometimes want to run 2 platforms (with different apps / versions) simultaneously - e.g. for retrospects into old documents and content exchange. It is a bit annoying then if both platforms are not distinguishable by their symbol.

Cosmetic bug report:

When running PA.com backup, the following shows up on the screen:

D:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\7-Zip>@echo off
'@echo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

D:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\7-Zip>title PortableApps.com Backup Details [DO NOT CLOSE]

It seems PortableApps.com\App\7-Zip\7za.bat was saved as UTF-8 with the BOM at file's start. A quick conversion in Notepad++ makes the program behave as specified.

Hi,

I was wondering when PortableApps 12.0 Beta 3 is expected to be released?

Sincerely,

Adam

Every time I launch PAP it opens up (ignoring the StartMinimized=True setting) and I see a progress bar inside the menu -- it seems to be doing a full icon cache refresh or app indexing. This initiation takes about 3 minutes with 283 apps installed. I know my Class 4 USB stick is partly to blame for the slow speed, but is there any way to configure it so that it stops doing whatever it's doing on startup?

I'm installing PAP for the first time and it has not been a smooth process. I first checked off 283 apps to download, and it took many hours to download everything. However, after installing about 150 apps, the application started to repeatedly display these two error alerts:

(1) "Access violation at address 00404F47 in module 'PortableAppsPlatform.exe'. Write of address"

(2) "Stack overflow."

I use Portable apps via Dropbox on home & work computer. Works great EXCEPT that whenever I start PA on the "other" computer - I get a warning about the autorun configuration having been changed and if I didn't make then change I need to run an AV scan... and then PA takes AGES to load. If I close down PA and re-open again on the same machine - it starts quickly. I swap machines, get the warning again and the delay

Q: How can I configure PA platform to NOT do the unnecessary check on startup?

I am new to this program. When I try to download any apps, I get the following error: "Download error: Redirection (301) on file". I can not download any of the apps. I get the same error every time.

I've got a few apps set up to auto-start when I run PortableApps, and I'd like them to automatically stop when I stop PA or hit its eject button.

I found a few threads here, but they all seem to lead to defunct apps like AutoClose (https://portableapps.com/node/20900), so there doesn't seem to be anything active any more. Is there a way to do this? Or something in the works?