Portable App Development

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.

Hi, how to open PAF file?

Note: Sorry if some UI text doesn't match, I'm using a Spanish translation.

Downloaded the app "winMd5Sum" from the main UI: "Apps -> Get More apps -> By title"
After downloading, "winMd5Sum" was not showing on the Apps installed apps list.

I found an issue on the ini file:
Homepage=PortableApps.com/apps/utilites/wincdemu-portable
Must be:
Homepage=PortableApps.com/apps/utilities/wincdemu-portable
Note "utilites" typo.

From the "About" window:
Version 17.1.1
Windows 10 (Version 10.0, Build 18363, 64-bit edition)

the launcher does nothing, the log says everything was right and there's no errors, then why?

Hi all,
I have launch paf installer for Foxit Reader Portable 10.1.0 and setup Italian language, but when open it appears with english interface.

So I have tried to switch interface to Italian language.
Therefore I have selected:
-> File -> Preferences -> Languages -> selected 'Choose custom language' -> and I have look in the box 'Translated by Community' ..
but Italian language do not appears.

I've seen that no one is discussing a portable version of Pokémon Uranium (I don't mean the "portable" zip created by the Uranium devteam, I mean a true portable app), so I'm here to ask:

Would a portable version of Pokémon Uranium be possible? If so, someone please develop it.