PortableApps.com Platform

It seems that whenever I try to uninstall an app it fails. There is not much to say except that when uninstall is selected it spends a little bit of time spinning its' wheels and then displays a dialogue box that says "Unable to uninstall appname" where appname corresponds to the name of the portableapp for which uninstall was selected.

Update: I retested and it turns out this was an issue on my side. Updating the heading.

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Setup: Win7x32, Platform version: 14.4.3

Background: was having an issue with the Start.exe process so I tried re-downloading the platform installer. There were a lot of programs under the
\PortableApps folder.

Steps:

1. Download the program and launch
2. Save to external drive (in this case J:\)

Defect: contents of Portable apps subfolder J:\PortableApps were deleted

Is there some way to uninstall unwanted Portable Apps plugins, like the GNUPG plugin (v2.26?) in the most recent update?

I can look through the entire PA menu system and not find a single reference to PA plugins. That's where I would normally look to find some PA apps that I want to remove.

I looked through the PA folder structure on my SSD and did not see any obvious indications of te PA GNUPG plugin being installed anywhere. I did not do any "file by file" searching; Windows isn't exactly friendly like Unix or Linux when that needs to be done.

Hello Members:

I am new to PortableApps.com.

I want to make sure I understand the UPDATE / UPGRADE info provided at: https://portableapps.com/support/portable_app#using

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Upgrading a Portable App

My USB is Lexar 32gb, with NTFS fs and no lock switch. After I installed the platform (14.4.3), it was working for a little while. Suddenly, when I try to exit, it said something like "Unable to write to E://PortableApps/PortableAppsMenu/Data/PortableAppsMenu" or something like that. After that, all the files on my usb are write protected, and I don't seem to have the control over it, as Nothing seems to have worked.

Some users are experiencing issues updating apps via the current stable platform release. The error given will be similar to:

"Unable to download the file. This could be due to a proxy or network issue or the hosting server not permitting downloads from your location file. File:..."

This issue will require some investigation to solve due to the fact that the updater/app store uses the built-in Windows internet components to handle downloads. As such, we likely have a few issues to work on fixing.

I use a portable Firefox version ESR 52.2.0, and I already configured this version in mono instance. when I try to access a web page with the Firefox desktop version, a tab on the portable version is displayed.
is there any solution that disable the display of a firefox Desktop tab on the firefox portable version knowing that I want to keep the configuration in mono instance of the portable version that I use?

Hi there,

I don't use the PortableAppsPlatform for anything except to quickly and easily update all the apps (I use a launcher I wrote myself using Autohotkey). I was wondering if there is a parameter or another way to only update all the installed portable apps and then auto-close?
You're not supposed to PortableAppsUpdater directly, I tried that

Thanks in advance!

PS. if you're interested in the launcher, let me know, it's on Github.

Hi,

I like to use portable apps (on the system drive) because of the automatic update feature.
Some are even in Windows Autostart (CrystalDiskInfo...), which sometimes leads to the "App has not been propery closed"-message (not sure about exact english phrase).
(I think when shutting down Windows the PortableApp-Launcher sometimes gets closed before the app it is monitoring)

It is then starting to clean up and exits.
It would be so much more convenient, if it could just start the app anyway after cleaning up instead of just exiting.

Seems insignificant.. & it kind of is

Every other issue has been resolved so.. my last petty grievance..

It's the last thing I can't get off my freakin' taskbar haha

The whole app drawer launcher UI whatever you want to call it..