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PortableApps.com Menu, Backup and Platform/Suite installer.

Problems with re-establishing a back-up

Submitted by Anders Rasmussen on August 8, 2010 - 5:28am

I’m using Portable Apps suite, primarily Thunderbird, and enjoying it.

However I have messed up quite a lot and am now in a bit of a problem.

Somehow Thunderbird has been deleted from my USB-disk. I think it is be course I took the disk out while the laptop was in standby-mode, but with Thunderbird still running. The suite-interface is still showing a disk usage corresponding to Thunderbird still being there, but my XP is showing that it is gone. The Thunderbird folder has formed to a 1-KB unknown file and the icon removed from the suite-interface.

App conversion error message

Submitted by philpense on August 7, 2010 - 10:20pm

Require an application "Sysangel" required for PXE boot installation of Windows Operating System. With Portable app ver. 2.0.2 the folder: "Portable Apps Directory" was created... in this folder, the folder "Sysangel" was created. The download of this app was placed in the Sysangel folder

The Portable Apps Platform app ver 2.0.2 was installed to the C: drive of this same computer and launched. Through this app, a path was navigated to this uninstalled app.

A New Theme | PortableApps Theme - Carbon GB

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Submitted by willskz on August 6, 2010 - 8:16pm

A new theme: Download Link
http://willskz.deviantart.com/#/d2vrjv5

English:

Instalation without complication
Replace the default theme folder
..\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\DefaultData\Themes\Default

HaveFun! If you wanna say thanks, follow me on twitter.com/willskz

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Portuguese - Brasil:

Instalação sem complicação
Substitua os arquivos do tema padrão
..\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\App\DefaultData\Themes\Default

Problem Launching application from the platform

Submitted by 0per4t0r on August 3, 2010 - 10:47pm

I have the game "Plasma Pong" installed, and it will run fine if you open it from windows explorer, but the platform will not open it. If i click on its icon on the menu, it just closes the menu and does nothing.

When the game launches, it usually opens a command prompt displaying the game settings, and then launches the game itself and GLUT (something to do with opengl)

[Suggestion] Unblackboxing the Updater

Submitted by depp.jones on August 3, 2010 - 6:17pm

After I tested the new update feature and read some threads about issues with it (and some other aspects of installing apps) some ideas began to grow...

  • For now the updater simply works as expected as long as no errors occur (firewall etc.). To solve these is usually beyond the normal users skills.
  • There is no option to automatically repair a damaged app. Reinstalling manually seems obvious but is not thought of by some people.

Hide to systray is not working properly

Submitted by Phoenix_CZ on July 31, 2010 - 6:31pm

Hi,
I am using Portable apps version 2.0 beta 5 Pre 2 on windows 7 with SP1.
I update to this beta version because of update possibility and its working fine for me.

But I found another small bug, always I use portable apps and select application to run or I minimize to system tray, application stays in task bar Sad

Its possible to set up in configuration that it should minimize to tray icon like previous versions? I simply dont want to have Portable Apps in taskbar.

Custom app names aren't retained after app is hidden from menu

Submitted by jvd897 on July 26, 2010 - 8:59pm

Hi everyone,

If this isn't actually a bug, I'll end up looking like the newbie I am, and I hasten to add that I searched before posting. My issue is this:

  1. I rename an app's menu entry
  2. I hide the app's menu entry (in my case, this was done accidentally)
  3. I make the entry visible again
  4. The entry no longer has the custom name I gave it, just the default one generated from the target EXE

Note: this happens with both PAF and non-PAF apps. At no point did I exit and restart the menu.

Updater uTorrent problem

Submitted by d_byrnes on July 23, 2010 - 5:58pm

I wasn't sure exactly where to post this. I've been using the beta 5 Platform since it was released, and have been very happy with the updater function. But today, a new version of uTorrent was released, and when I use the updater I get the following error after downloading the file:

"The downloaded copy of uTorrent Portable is not valid and can not be installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other network issue. Please try running the updater again when complete"

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