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DownloadFiles not working in specific case

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Submitted by darksabre76 on March 7, 2013 - 6:53pm

Hey there, I am trying to make a version of foobar2000 for myself (not for release any time soon because I don't want to bother contacting the original developer, etc) but I'm trying to "futureproof" the installer by making it an online installer. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to download anything when I ask it to, and all I end up with is the empty shell of an App folder that I started with. Below is the full text of the installer.ini file because I see no other reason it shouldn't work. Thanks for anyone who can lend a hand.

installer.ini

[MainDirectories]

Xfire Portable Project - Up and Running again!

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Submitted by TechnicalUplink on March 7, 2013 - 12:32pm

Hey Portable Apps, I am happy to announce that as of today, the Xfire Portable development project is back up and running. I am going under a new name, as I am no longer iTechNewsDaily. I will be moving the entire project to this forum thread. Feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you may have.

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Application: XFire Portable
Category: Games

Important exeption when updating a portable program

Submitted by tapsklaps on March 3, 2013 - 2:38pm

Assuming a user performs some changes in the file AppNamePortable.ini. Furthermore should be this particular program installed in the PA.com menu.
To preserve the manual changes made ​​by the user in the settings during an automatic update of this program, it's necessary to note the following points:

[solved] Moving profile folder

Submitted by orschiro on February 27, 2013 - 6:52am

Hello,

I want to make Zotero Standalone fully portable. However, on start-up Zotero creates a profile folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Zotero\Zotero with the following content:

|profiles.ini
|||Profiles/
|||||f450im62.default/
||||||||[...]
|||||||||zotero/

Zotero\Profiles\f450im62.default\zotero is the actual folder which Zotero uses. I would like to store this profile in Data\profile.

How can I tell Zotero to create its profile folder in Data\profile and use this one as default?

jportable java autoupdate disable

Submitted by jonni.meneghel on February 26, 2013 - 5:01am

I'd like to distribute a web app that needs a java plugin on the browser,
so I have downloaded portableapps with ironportable and jportable.

Everything works fine but it seems that both ask for updates.

I've find the way (via command line switches) to force the browser to work only with our site so there isn't any need of update for security reasons.

I don't want that users update the java plugin.

At the moment I haven't find the way to avoid java plugin to search for updates.

Could someone help me ?

Many thanks and sorry for my English.

App needs more than one launcher.

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Submitted by bill_gagliardi on February 23, 2013 - 7:47am

Let's say there's 5 individual components to a portable app that can be run separately. How would I create 5 individual launchers? Is it even possible with the official launcher generator?

I thought that if you defined each launcher you want in the launcher.ini file, and had all the appicons in place, the generator would create whatever you defined, but instead I only got one launcher.

New application, Portable format only

Submitted by shookmon on February 22, 2013 - 2:15am

I think I understand that PA.c apps are meant to be launchers for other embedded apps.

However, while writing my first PA.c app, I am also writing the app itself. I have no intention of releasing a non-PA.c version of the app, so there's really no point to me as a developer to have to embed a simple app with a launcher when I could just put the app as the launcher.

If someone really wanted to use the software without PA.c, I might just offer a .zip they could put wherever they like.

Is this allowed? Does it violate some underpinnings of PA.c that I'm not aware of?

Lamexp

Submitted by ed666 on February 21, 2013 - 4:16pm

Would it be legal to make a portableapps version of Lamexp?
http://lamexp.sourceforge.net/

I'm asking because this program include lame mp3 encoder and i have read that this would be illegal in some country's?

The license of this program states this:

LameXP is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY

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