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[Fixed] Mumble installer creates weird directory

Submitted by mwayne on February 13, 2017 - 5:52am

The installer creates an "=App" folder and within a "mumble" folder in the base directory. I noticed this while installing Mumble via the PA.c Platform and merging it into my branch. I downloaded the package from Sourceforge directly, installed it and the same thing happens. So I checked the package but there is no such folder. AFAIR this isn't the first time this is happening. Is it just me or is something wrong with the installer?

Chrome portable with user data dir option

Submitted by kameleon on February 7, 2017 - 6:54pm

I am trying to get chrome portable to use a directory I have used with normal chrome using the --user-data-dir= switch. However the portable version doesn't pull the info. I have not tried doing a fresh one but do plan on that.

My end goal is to have multiple directories, one each for various profiles, and have them truly portable. I am guessing I will need relative links in the --user-data-dir= switch also. Is this possible with the portable version?

For instance:
GoogleChromePortable.exe --user-data-dir="..\ChromeProfiles\Profile1"

[Fixed] New FileZilla icon cache leaks data outside the portable directory

Submitted by furlong_p on December 18, 2016 - 4:09am

Verified with PAF 3.23.0.2

Latest versions of FileZilla have improved Toolbar icon routines. To speed up the icon loading (as they can now be scaled), there is a new icon cache in %LOCALAPPDATA%\FileZilla. Although the cached PNGs are of non-private nature, that behavior is not desired for a portable package.

There is a new setting in fzdefaults.xml to control the cache location.

<Setting name="Cache directory">$USERPROFILE/Documents</Setting>

Google Chrome became corrupt after most recent update

Submitted by Sam G on December 12, 2016 - 10:35am

This has happened once before, probably around a year or two ago. I would accept an update via PortableApps and after what appears to be a successful download and update, I went to launch Chrome and it would fail.

Further research into the cause revealed that my user account (a local admin) no longer has read access to the chrome-bin folder. I store my PortableApps folder structure within my user profile's "Documents" folder. This account, like all default user accounts, has full read/write perms to their profile's "Documents" folder.

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