Portable App Development

I just installed (April 9, 2021) a "Required Update" to Portable App which I keep on a flash drive and during the installation virtually all of my data files were deleted from the flash drive. I would be very careful with the update and recommend not installing it until a further explanation is provided by the software developer.

Hi, I just found this site.

I'm the author of an application (https://www.pingnoo.com) and I provide a portable version for windows (I'm actually about to push another version which fixes an issue where the settings were stored in a non-portable way.

I'm looking for a way to give feedback on FileZillaPortable_3.53.0.paf.exe that was recently posted to the PortableApps.com project on SourceForge. Can someone please point me in the right direction, as I just keep going in circles.

There is a bug that shows up when using the latest release FileZillaPortable_3.53.0.paf.exe when attempting to connect to an SFTP server on port 22 using SCP. It throws an error stating "invalid xml file"

The previous version 3.52.2 works without issue.

Streamlabs OBS that could be installed into any location. I do not have the installer ready yet, but will work on that!

I want to learn to make portable software. Can anyone guide me. Thanks very much

I'm new to all this and im trying this site out instead.

I would like to make sure that the program never writes to local disk folders such as C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\NAMEAPP.
I tried with

[DirectoriesMove]
Local-App-Data = C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\NAMEAPP

but while the program is running the path is written temporarily which I would like to avoid.

I think you need to redirect folders but I don't know if this is possible.

Thank you and good evening.

Stephen

I am trying to convert an application into a portable form.

The application only creates a folder named AppName in %APPDATA%.
My question is, what's the proper way to configure the launcher?

I thought about something like:


[DirectoriesMove]
AppName=%APPDATA%\AppName


My question is, how it handles the case %APPDATA%\AppName already defined?
From documentation I get it is first coped and kept as backup and then the local copy is copied.

Many programs use user Documents folder for store their user data (ex: UserDocuments/MyAppUserData).
I want this program not use user Documents, but the ProgramFolder/Documents/MyAppUserData.

What have I to use, a launcher or a shortcut?
What is the correct syntax?

Thanks.

What's the easiest way to add the path for one PA app to another? I have the following PA apps:

* VSCode Portable
* Git Portable
* NodeJS Portable

Right now, I'm getting around the PATH issue by essentially stuffing all the paths into my GitPortable Environment section in the launcher ini and launching apps from there, but that gets reset each time I rebuild Git Portable.

I see that there is an AppNamePortable.ini in the Other/Source folder, but that doesn't seem to be able to override environment variables.

Thanks in advance.