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Blender install reset without warning

Submitted by sveilien on April 17, 2023 - 1:39pm

Blender 3.5 PortableApps
Windows 11
Installed on a Sandisk Extreme Pro 4GB

This morning I launched PortableApps and started Blender and the Blender install appears to be reset. Previous settings and add-ons are all gone. No issues like this for over 8 months of use. Is their any sort of log to review to see possible malfunctions?

Unable to update "Process Explorer", Error: The downloaded copy ... is not valid and can not be installed

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Submitted by nerdtron on April 5, 2023 - 7:47am

Getting this error message when trying to update to Process Explorer v17.03 in the PortableApps platform.

"The downloaded copy of Process Explorer (https://download.sysinternals.com/files/ProcessExplorer.zip) 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."

Updating Apps one at a time

Submitted by Thoughts... on April 4, 2023 - 10:59am

As far as I can tell, when updatng apps the platform downloads all the installation packages needed and then runs them. Since I do not update regularly this process can take a long time and fill all available space and fail.
I know you can manually sellect which Apps to update so its possible to manually update them one at a time, however, this is not very convienient and requires some guess work. Yes I could buy a bigger USB stick (not on a USB stick but hey!). Adding more storage just moves the issue into the future and I also run out of space for other reasons.

cant get platform to work - XP tablet edition

Submitted by pontid01 on March 30, 2023 - 6:08am

I dusted off an old Fujitsu slate running xp tablet edition, had platform 2.12 this no longer connects to update and downloding 2.23 and 2.24 they both crash.
Any one have any ideas?
Why when it is so old? Just for fun, Firefox 43 downloaded and installed separately. Smile
if there is no way to update the platform it is no biggie, but I thought I'd see if anyone had any ideas.

excessive disk activity and memory usage with chrome

Submitted by TimBo266 on March 27, 2023 - 2:47pm

Recently since an update to Chrome for your portable app program, my HD activity has become so bad that I think the computer has or is going to crash. The disk activity is 98 to 100% continually. I check this through task manager. I see there are 26 incidences of chrome open and all are busy. The same issue affects the system's memory. It occupies as much as 59% of 16 gig RAM. I think I was getting better numbers with the real chrome with a relocated cache. I think there would only be 2 incidences of Chrome working in the task manager. What is going on here?

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