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Platform won't exit if thumb drive is read only

Submitted by melgish on May 26, 2015 - 8:08am

Using 12.0.5.

Recently a policy change where I work has made all thumb drives read-only--or maybe just the one I own. Since then I've discovered that the platform won't exit. Instead it pops up an error indicating that the INI file can't be updated.

It would be awesome if someone would change this error to include Yes/No buttons and "Exit anyway" in the text.

Failing that, I'm open to suggestions or a work-around. The same policy prevents me from killing the app once started, and the machine takes nearly 12 minutes to shut down.

Thanks

Platform App List

Submitted by clayto on May 2, 2015 - 12:43pm

I am completely new to Portable Apps and to the Platform so this might me a dumb question. I have just started looking at the Platform and noticed that some of my (as yet, few) portable apps are not listed, for example Firefox and Glary Utilities. Is this because the Platform only lists apps downloaded from PortableApps, com or for some other reason?

How select platform (32 or 64 bit) for a PortableApp that uses separate installers?

Submitted by SAbboushi on April 29, 2015 - 7:34pm

I just installed PortableApps on W764. Looks like I'm going to start going Portable as much as I can going forward.

I selected several apps that I've previously installed using windows installers such as ditto.

Ditto has a 32 bit and 64 bit installers; PortableApps installed the 32 bit version. Same with 7-zip...

Is there someplace to override this, or will I just need to manually install programs like ditto 64bit when this happens... and then manage updates in the future instead of having PortableApps do that?

Thanks--
Sam

Unable to install apps on WinXP

Submitted by MrE on April 23, 2015 - 7:26pm

I cannot install any portable apps that have been updated within the last two months.

I download the file, double click it to install, but nothing happens. I do not get the usual installation dialog box.

Are the installation files being packaged in a different way?

I do not have this problem with portable apps that have not been updated recently.

I'm running WinXP, with no .NET.

Thanks,.

Installing and using portable apps platform and apps

Submitted by Pat625 on April 20, 2015 - 7:59pm

I installed the Portable apps platform 12.05 and the Portable Gimp app as instructed into my onedrive from my PC. Usin the platform on my PC works fine. I cannot get the platform or the Gimp apps to start from onedrive. I have loaded, removed, reloaded both many times with no results.
How can you use the apps on other computers or the cloud? I cannot find any exe files on the apps one onedrive to get it started.

2xRDP Poratble at startup

Submitted by phoneman on April 16, 2015 - 2:29am

Hi,

I have installed the 2X RDP Portable App. I have configured some RDP-Session´s to my servers. When I start 2X RDP Portalble, there will be started all RDP-Session automaticly. But I want select ohne RDP-Session and start only the selected session.
Is there a way to fixthis issue?

Many thanks

Greatings

Richard

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