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Help, it renamed my drive.

Submitted by GeekInAsia on May 4, 2011 - 10:36pm

Hoping someone can help me out with this as it is a real pain.

Been using standalone portable apps for years, however thought i would try the new platform updater. What a nightmare !!!

It has renamed my USB SSD to "PortableApps.com" and I can't change it back. I have deleted the files for the platform updater and restored a backup to the drive but I still cannot get back to normal.

The drive label is unchanged ( checked via Drive Properties ) so it must have changed something on my system Registry or installed a hidden program maybe.

2.0 Release?

Submitted by GrahamG on May 3, 2011 - 3:20pm

The Easter Weekend has been and gone. I think I read that the release of 2.0 was being deferred until after the Easter Weekend in order to maintain a better release profile.

Just wondered what lead time we should now expect?

No hassle, just trying to stave of my disappointment.

Thanks.

Install problem

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Submitted by gonzo411 on May 1, 2011 - 10:30pm

My install keeps failing when it tries to extract PNotesPortable.jpg. When it fails, the Install Wizard freezes and all I can do is Cancel. Then, the flash drive is unreadable. I have to eject the drive and then reinsert it for everything to look right again. I've downloaded the exe file twice and both times the same thing happened.

I'm trying to install the Standard Suite, Version 1.6.1 on a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer plugged in to a PC using Windows XP-Pro Version 2002 SP3.

Any suggestions?

how to put the apps on my Palm Tungsten C

Submitted by george@theculle... on April 26, 2011 - 7:31pm

Hi, Not sure if I am asking in the right forum place, but hopefully someone can help me, please. I have a Palm Tungsten C which has wi-fi. I have available a 1gb SD card to load the apps onto.
I am not too swift with computer things that aren't really straight forward. In fact I am still recovering from a combat type brain injury and have to work pretty hard to make much of anything work right for me.

I downloaded the suite onto my computer desktop. It opens up there OK. How and what do I do to sync all this to my PDA?

"Open with" dialog on Windows 7 shows "PortableApps.com Launcher" not "PortableFoo"

Submitted by Bob Bagwill on April 26, 2011 - 9:15am

If I tried to use the "Open with" dialog to tell Windows 7 to use Notepad++Portable to open .txt files, for example, after selecting the the executable, the dialog box shows the name of the executable as "PortableApps.com Launcher" instead of "Notepad++ Portable". It does show the correct icon.

Why is that, and is there a fix? Thanks.

prevent non-portable versions from being executed

Submitted by Bob Bagwill on April 26, 2011 - 8:16am

I accidently ran firefox in the app/ directory and started accumulating bookmarks, passwords etc. in the wrong place because it came up first in Search.

I was wondering if the non-portable executables could be marked hidden, or renamed without the .exe extension or something, so that they could only be invoked by the portable launcher.

The problem of creating portable software using PortableApps.comLauncherGenerator.exe

Submitted by Vera081 on April 26, 2011 - 2:27am

established a program to create portabe software - PortableApps.comLauncherGenerator.exe. In the installation folder placed the installation file, which should have been done in a portable version. In this case it was a mail agent. In the same folder found two programs that need to be together with PortableApps.comLauncherGenerator.exe. - NSISPortableANSI_2.46_Rev_2_English.i NSISPortable_2.46_Rev_2_English. In the process of creating a portable software creates a file PortableApps.comLauncher and thus cause errors.

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