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Malwarebytes reports calibre portable as Ransomware

Submitted by bigpallooka on September 11, 2023 - 10:48pm

Thanks to the excellent advice from John T. Haller I was able to transfer my large calibre portable library into the portableapps version of calibre portable. Unfortunately, Malwarebytes is convinced that calibrePortable.exe is ransomware (Malware.Ransom.Agent.Generic) and keeps quarantining it. Can anyone explain this behaviour before I make an exception in Malwarebytes?
Regards

Moving from Calibre Portable to portableapps.com Calibre Portable

Submitted by bigpallooka on August 21, 2023 - 9:33pm

I have been using calibre portable for many years and have successfully moved from drive to drive and computer to computer. I was wondering what the difference is between the Official Portable release and the portableapps.com release. I want to move my libraries to my portableapps.com drive and was wondering if it is possible to just copy the data to that folder or will I break it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Regards

[Fixed] GnuCash Portable - Printing Errors

Submitted by portot on August 8, 2023 - 1:31pm

GnuCash 5.3 for Windows from gnucash.org on Windows 10 allows report and check printing. GnuCash Portable 5.3 for Windows on Windows 10 fails to print reports and checks on the same machine. GnuCash Portable 5.3 generates no visible message/error when attempting to print a check and nothing is listed in the Windows 10 printer management interface. When attempting to print a report with GnuCash Portable 5.3 I see a dialog with the GnuCash Portable 5.3 icon in the upper left corner and the message states "Error from StartDoc".

Error message of Stickies Portable (sticky notes) 10.1d Rev 2

Submitted by Korell on April 6, 2023 - 11:07am

Hi,

yesterday Stickies Portable (sticky notes) 10.1d Rev 2 was released.

The error message is in german. Unfortunately I cannot post the screenshot here.

Its aboput a "mdb2db.exe" in the path "Portable\PortableApps\StickiesPortable\Data\".
This application could not be started because the side-by-side configuration is invalid. For more information, see the Application Event Log. You can also view more details using the sxstrace.exe command-line tool.

I'm kind of overwhelmed.

[Fixed] PNotes Portable color display/change issue

Submitted by eaofpzaidr on March 30, 2023 - 2:34pm

PNotes Portable (as of Mar 2023) renders wrong note colors, especially when installed to removable drive

OS: Win 10 Ent x64 / Win 11 Pro x64 (default OS appearance, no customization)
Install path: removable drives or local disk (different results described below)
Install type: new, via PA.c Platform or independently (both tried)

Original PNotes from sf.net: Wherever it's installed, notes have yellow background and black font by default. Changing the colors (background/text font/caption font) takes immediate effect (no need to restart PNotes).

[Fixed] calibre-cache left behind

Submitted by mrw2day on March 2, 2023 - 10:02am

As noted when Calibre was in the portableapps dev...my calibre portableapps install creates a C:\Users\*usrname*\AppData\Local\calibre-cache folder where it caches opened book data.

Is this still a normal thing for this to happen or do I need to reinstall Calibre Portable?

If that is the case...is there any know procedure to store this information elsewhere?

Qalculate 4.5.0 launch error

Submitted by ralmon on December 28, 2022 - 10:45am

When I try to run the Qalculate app, nothing appears to happen. In the Windows Applications event log, I see the following:

Faulting application name: qalculate-gtk.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x63a024eb
Faulting module name: libglib-2.0-0.dll, version: 2.72.1.0, time stamp: 0x00000000
Exception code: 0x40000015
Fault offset: 0x000aad51

PDF Arranger crash on startup

Submitted by g-npho on December 12, 2022 - 6:16pm

Hello all,
When starting PDF Arranger after first installation and startup it throws the following:
cx_freeze: Python error in main script
Traceback (most recent call last): file
Z:\mingw64\lib\python3.9\site-packages\pikepdf\__init__.py, line 13, in
Import error: DLL load failed while importing _qpdf: Die angegebene Prozedur wurde nicht gefunden. (The called procedure was not found.)

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