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Why

Submitted by badboybrody on April 18, 2016 - 10:41am

Every time I update the portable apps software it totolly erases, resets my Opera web browser? WHY? This happened 2 or 3 times now and it is very annoying having to reinstall everything. Portable apps used to be great software. But lately I have noticed it going down hill. Maybe it's time for a change.

SpeedyFox

Submitted by grissey on April 15, 2016 - 3:42pm

Cannot install App 'SpeedyFox'.
Message "Not Found

The requested URL /portableapps/speedyfoxportable/SpeedyFoxPortable_2.0.14.96_English.paf.exe was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at download3.portableapps.com Port 80" displayed.

Unable to connect to PortableApps.com to retrieve portable apps

Submitted by infoman on April 2, 2016 - 11:34pm

HP pavilion, 64 bit, W10
I started with version 12.x, and got the error: Unable to connect to PortableApps.com to retrieve portable apps. Please try again later. [SendRequest Error].
Thinking that may be related to there being version 13.0 available, I downloaded that, and updated my copy; I got the same error.
Next, I installed new copy to flash drive, but still get the same error.
Went to Options, Connections, and change from Automatic to direct connection; now it is working.
Wondering why Automatic did not work

Open links in default browser

Submitted by HaloZone on April 1, 2016 - 12:27pm

My default browser (installed normally, not portable) is Firefox.
Additionally, I have Google Chrome as portable app (as alternative).

If I open for e.g. the website of an app from the context menu in the PortableApps Platform, it is opened in Chrome instead of the default browser Firefox. If I remove Chrome, the link is opened normally in Firefox.

Is it possible to change this behaviour? How does the PortableApps Platform determine the browser to use for links?
I already tried removing the [Associations] Section in the appinfo.ini of Chrome, without success.

Update

Submitted by jose.morato on March 29, 2016 - 6:37am

Current version of Google Chrome 49.0.2623.110. Current version of Google Chrome Portable 49.0.2623.87.
Please update the portable version.
Grateful

[Fixed] Backups no longer funtion (7-zip can't allocate required memory)

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Submitted by Gizmokid2005 on March 16, 2016 - 1:04am

Ever since the upgrade to PA.c Platform 13, my backups consistently fail with an error that "7-zip can't allocate required memory" during backup.

Even running the command manually doesn't allow for the backup to complete. However, if I run the command manually, instead using my local x64 install of 7-zip, the command runs as expected and I don't get the error.

SysInfo:
Windows 8.1 Pro x64
24GB RAM
Local 7-zip v15.05beta
PA.c Platform v13
PA.c 7-zip v15.14 (Per the PA.c Platform's App folder 7-zip readme file)

First Run App Updater Never Finishes

Submitted by cutabovehost on March 7, 2016 - 3:05pm

Hello,

I installed the Portable Apps Platform on a 64GB Cruzer USB 3.0 thumb drive, and when it starts
it will open up the checking for apps dialog box, but it never finishes, or closes. It has been running for
5 hours now yet still has closed, I haven't added any apps as I stated this is the first time it has ran.
Any idea on how to fix this?

Kind regards,

Steve Hagerman

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