Portable App Development

Hello & good day! New fellow developer here with some quick questions

Most of my apps never write to registry and are -in general- contained into a single folder (ApplicationName.exe + a .dll here & there).

As I get it, the gist of publishing around is to make the application work into your installer… correct? i.e. only proper submissions using portableapps.com format.

Hi, after executing ccPortable (v5.83), on a clean 21H1 Win 10 x64 System, I've noticed the following leftovers in registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Piriform\CCleaner

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Piriform\CCleaner

I hope you will solve. Thanks.

Hello all, I am the developer of AuthPass: https://authpass.app/ and recently got a request from a user to make it a portable app. I wonder if you have any suggestions and if it would be possible to publish it in the portableapps directory?

I already created a release which is "portable" - ie. it is a ZIP with will launch without any external dependencies and only write into a Data subdirectory: https://authpass-data.codeux.design/data/artifacts/AuthPass-portable-1.8.2_1731.zip

So it's like:

So I have an app I've been trying to portablize (is that even a word?) for my own private use and it has a bunch of data it writes to the %LOCALAPPDATA% folder. I know I'm supposed to edit things in the launcher ini but can't figure out how to actually get it to work. I at least got the directory structure of the main folder copied over but none of the actual files. I've created portable versions of other apps before but only ones that already have a native portable version. How do I get everything to copy over to the portable app folder?

hey, there please can anyone update links text based browser to the newset version 2.23 ? Thanks alot

Hi, I have written a custom.nsh script that adds symbolic link functionality to PortableApps launchers. You can find it here, functionally replacing the DirectoriesMove function.

It does have some disadvantages (NTFS-only and admin required) but there are use cases like videogames or apps that generate a lot of data where I find it's the optimal solution. Please check it out if you have the time and tell me what you think.

На днях столкнулся с проблемой, Portableapps launcher не переносит папки с русскими наименованиями. Что нужно делать в даной ситуации?

This app has been released: https://portableapps.com/apps/office/dogecoin-portable

Application: Dogecoin
Category: Office - Cryptocurrency
Licensce: Open Source (source code)
Description: Peer-to-Peer digital currency

when the update of platform finish,
the platform restarts
and the apps what I set to start automatically launches although they are already running.

I'd like to make the platform to ignore the start automatically setting after its own update.
If it's that I am missing the corresponding option, please let me know.

thank you and see you

I just started using a PortableApps app in order to improve the page about that option on our FOSS wiki. I hope to add a page about how a portable version (as a complement to a normal install) can expand options.

Download & installation went well, except for a few minor ambiguity hitches regarding what was included in the Portable build.