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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Starting an application that previously wasn't shut down correctly

Submitted by Karlovsky120 on October 14, 2018 - 2:36pm

Every portable app I have has had this feature/issue that has been bothering me for a while. I've seen this behavior on MPC-HC and FoxitReader, to name a few, and since the same message appeared on multiple apps, I'm assuming this is a part of the core framework.

Try opening an app and then crashing it.

Now try opening it again. The app will tell you it didn't shut down correctly and needs to clean up. That's perfectly fine. So you click ok. And that's it, the app cleans up and closes.

XAMPP Launcher 1.7 upgrade deletes all Xampp installation data

Submitted by konilabs on September 17, 2018 - 6:58am

Dear PortableApps team,

I upgraded XAMPP Control Panel app to version 1.7.0.0 this morning.
https://portableapps.com/apps/development/xampp

It deleted all data located inside P:\PortableApps\XAMPP\App\xampp during update.
This means that all my XAMPP installation was deleted automatically, and nothing arrived inside recycle bin.

OS : Windows 7 64 bit.

It looks like it is a major bug to me.
Please contact me if you need any other information.

AntinVirus & Utilities

Submitted by Sam B on September 4, 2018 - 10:11am

Hello, I'm new so don't know very much I think portable apps are just the best thing, however can you make portable apps for bitdefender, Comodo, Vipre, Norton Utilities & Win Utilities, soorry the list goes on, I understand they are not open souce but can they be made for people who own the rights, badically I have a licence for all that ai mention but would much prefer to run them as a portable apps as they tend to suck too much resource from the PC especially when booting, AV all tend to suck resources, hence I don't have the knowledge to do it myself but at least you guy s o have th

%APPDATA% won't work in GoogleChromePortable.ini

Submitted by Hoefer on July 11, 2018 - 6:29am

Hello,

I try to use GoogleChromePortable in a pool of virtual machines. I want to "install" ChromePortable local on the machines - but the settings and the bookmarks etc. should be in the roaming userprofiles.

When I try to change the ProfileDirectory and the SettingsDirectory via GoogleChromePortable.ini it is not possible to set the path to %APPDATA%\Chrome.
It is also not possible to access a homedrive (E:\).
It is only possible to change the directory via "..\..\Users" but %USERNAME% is also not supported.

Any further ideas?

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