Hi,
If this is already documented apologies but I've searched and cannot find.
I'd like to be able to silent install the platform selecting the location and apps to install.
e.g.
PortableApps.com_Platform_Setup_14.4.3.paf.exe /silent /location D:\PortableApps /apps applist.txt
appslist.txt could just be a list of apps :
Google Chrome
7-Zip
KeePass Password Safe
Putty
WinMerge
etc...
Many thanks
I'm looking to automate the process of setting up the platform on USB devices for lower-income students who don't have access to their own PC and I was wondering if there is a way to script the platform setup to run silently and install several portable apps automatically without user intervention. I've been googling and googling but I am not finding anything. I can't even find the NSIS source code for the platform setup. Please help! I just want to automate the creation of a bunch of devices for these students
Hello!
My problem is, that I can't update some portable apps. 1 or 2 have been done, but the rest will not update since some days. Can you help me with that?
Here's the link to a screenshot:
https://mega.nz/#!WVN2hRDI!-O4U3zRz1BqX_hFlmnwRa-2lbYCIg8qzOv0N640MCZg
Best regards,
Timo
Hi,
I use a Python based portable "audio" player named quodlibet.
After downloading and extracting its archive, I found the two windows shortcuts to start the player and to start the ID tag editor.
The portableapps menu does not show the player, nor its executables, which are one of the sub menus.
Is there a chance to include windows shortcuts, pointing to executables, or the executables, they point to, into the portableapps menu, into the app list?
Best regards,
Martin
I'm looking for information about how the updater of the platform works ...
I did not find anything in the documentation: https://portableapps.com/manuals/PortableApps.comLauncher/index.html
neither in the index, in the complete table of contents, or in the glossary
Does this updater actually check the version that one really has or just look on a database of previous updates that it did?
Lastly I saw him offer me updates that had been made "by hand" when the app offered me (thunderbird).
And secondly if we accept the update proposed by the updater when it was already done manually, what happens: it reinstalls over?
I ask this because I have stability problems with thunderbird since I had the case (without loss of data or pb with "profiles" file...); but beyond that the mode of operation of the updater appeals to me ...
and besides my example, I think that it will be useful to know it because the majority of the softwares now check themselves the updates at startup and propose them ...
thank you to enlighten me
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Is it possible to tell Backup to backup files from another Flash Drive other than the one it is installed on. It apparently only wants to back up files from the device it is installed on. I was hoping to do other drives that do not have any PA stuff on them.
Is there any way to run a program with arguments from the client?
Right now the only "documented" way of doing so is modifying the appinfo file to open a batch file (*.BAT), which in turn runs the program i want with the arguments (e.g. Steam "Portable")
If there's no way, could the developers watching this forum add this funcionality? Some apps require admin rights without those arguments, making impossible to run everywhere.
My anti-virus (Spectrum Security Suite, F-Secure) won't let me install the beta. It claims to give me the opportunity to override the block, but then that fails--still won't let me install.
This is my personal laptop--I should be able to install this, but I don't know how.
FWIW, I already have 15.0 Beta 2 installed. I might have just copied from a flash drive.
When I try to update my apps, I get this message:
The downloaded copy of Autoruns is not valid and can not be installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other network issue. Please try running the updater again when complete. The downloaded copy of FileZilla is not valid and can not be installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other network issue. Please try running the updater again when complete. The downloaded copy of Miranda IM is not valid and can not be installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other network issue. Please try running the updater again when complete. The downloaded copy of qBittorrent is not valid and can not be installed. This could be due to an incomplete download or other network issue. Please try running the updater again when complete.
I've tried it a couple of times. It should have had plenty of time to finish downloading in the background (the message indicates that that happens, but I doubt it). This problem started occuring after my wifi broke during an update. But now that it's back up &7 stable again, the problem keeps happening.
I would clear some sort of cache, if only I knew where that sits. Other than that, I have no idea what to do.
I'm at PA.com 14.4.3 on Windows 10.
PS: the captcha is bloody terrible! stop punishing me for being human, punish the robots instead!
Hi everyone. I just created portable installation of my old Diablo II LoD and my portableapps platform menu get 10 new files what belongs to diablo II LoD. Can I somehow create program group to store all Diablo II LoD related files ?
Possible workaround can be to hide unwanted files but i don't know how.
Thanks
-Garrom
Hi there!
I'm using the Platform for some years, and I see it's changing but the dialog window for getting new apps is still without any search box, however it got 10 categories there and 200+ item which are hard to find quickly when you need it.
Dialog window of PA Updater (aka PA Directory) is shown below
https://vgy.me/kmDfl1.png
Hope it would be invented in the future releases of the Platform!
On startup today, I got the attached error popup.
OS: Win 7, 64 bit
(How can I attach screenshot)?
When I started PortableApps I got a list of three applications that needed updating. When I tried updating I got the following error message:
"Unable to download the file. This could be due to a proxy or network issue or the hosting server not permitting downloads from your location file. File:
https://portableapps.com/redirect/?s=p&a=FirefoxPortable&d=sfpa&f=Firefo..."
I had a similar error for an update around a week or so. I'm starting to think it is systemic. I wonder if any other users have observed a similar issue? I'd like to solve this. From my side, I will try to connect to a different network. Does anyone have an idea for a workaround or solution?
Thanks
Jojo
Seems insignificant.. & it kind of is 
Every other issue has been resolved so.. my last petty grievance.. 
It's the last thing I can't get off my freakin' taskbar haha
The whole app drawer launcher UI whatever you want to call it..
Hi,
I like to use portable apps (on the system drive) because of the automatic update feature.
Some are even in Windows Autostart (CrystalDiskInfo...), which sometimes leads to the "App has not been propery closed"-message (not sure about exact english phrase).
(I think when shutting down Windows the PortableApp-Launcher sometimes gets closed before the app it is monitoring)
It is then starting to clean up and exits.
It would be so much more convenient, if it could just start the app anyway after cleaning up instead of just exiting.
Anyway, thanks for your work to provide all those nice portable Apps for us!
Hi there,
I don't use the PortableAppsPlatform for anything except to quickly and easily update all the apps (I use a launcher I wrote myself using Autohotkey). I was wondering if there is a parameter or another way to only update all the installed portable apps and then auto-close?
You're not supposed to PortableAppsUpdater directly, I tried that
Thanks in advance!
PS. if you're interested in the launcher, let me know, it's on Github.
I use a portable Firefox version ESR 52.2.0, and I already configured this version in mono instance. when I try to access a web page with the Firefox desktop version, a tab on the portable version is displayed.
is there any solution that disable the display of a firefox Desktop tab on the firefox portable version knowing that I want to keep the configuration in mono instance of the portable version that I use?
Some users are experiencing issues updating apps via the current stable platform release. The error given will be similar to:
"Unable to download the file. This could be due to a proxy or network issue or the hosting server not permitting downloads from your location file. File:..."
This issue will require some investigation to solve due to the fact that the updater/app store uses the built-in Windows internet components to handle downloads. As such, we likely have a few issues to work on fixing.
First off, Windows XP users will be unable to update files hosted on SourceForge due to some of the download mirrors only working with newer encryption methods. You can try again and hope you get a different mirror. The more complete solution is called POSReady. This is a registry key patch for Windows XP that will cause Windows Update to treat it as Windows Embedded, which is still supported. You fully update Windows XP SP3, including installing the latest version of IE and applying all updates. Then you apply the POSReady patch and reboot. Then you check Windows update again and apply additional patches released since Windows XP end of life. Note that this method is unsupported and may be illegal in your location.
For users on Vista and later or using Windows XP with POSReady applied, there are other things to check. The first issue we encountered previously was having Internet Options set to warn when http switched to https or vice versa. Platform 14.4.3 and 15 Beta 3 are already mitigating this issue. The second issue we encountered is PCs with secure connections disabled. If you check Internet Options in your Control Panel, click on the Advanced tab and scroll to the bottom, you should have TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.2 all checked off. If you do not, please check them off now. We'll be mitigating this in the next release to the PA.c Platform as we do with the https to http warning. While in here, it's a good idea to uncheck the Warn if changing between secure and not secure as well as it will prevent issues with apps using Windows internet components.
If you have done the above, rebooted, and things are still not working, now we'll need to narrow down what is and isn't working for you. Here are the things to try installing/updating:
1. Platform app store load (note that if this fails for you, no need to attempt the others... and you should check to ensure your platform's Connection is set right in Options. The default is automatic)
2. FirefoxPortable (SourceForge hosted with PA.c redirect)
3. 4stAttackPortable (SourceForge hosted without PA.c redirect)
4. AIMP (PA.c hosted freeware, old style redirect)
5. Balabolka 2.11.0.649 (PA.c hosted freeware, new style redirect)
6. Inkscape (Publisher hosted)
Make a note of what does and does not work. Now, for any that do not work, please try launching Internet Explorer, visiting the PA.c site, and downloading these apps. Please note that ONLY Internet Explorer matters for this test as it uses the Windows networking components. It does not matter if you can download in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, etc so please do not report back about those.
Now, please post a comment with what is and isn't working for you along with the following details about your setup:
1. Platform version and whether it was a fresh install or upgrade
2. Connection setting in platform options (default is Automatic)
3. Windows version and bit depth
4. Full install path to the platform's Start.exe file
Once we're at this point, I'll try to recreate your issue on a clean virtual machine install of your exact setup of Windows running from the same path. Hopefully I can reproduce it and work on a specific fix for your specific cause.
In addition to the above, I'm working on an alternate download method for the platform, likely using curl in the short term. It will allow us to bypass the Windows networking components and add SOCKS proxy support, but it won't let us show download progress within the Platform's interface. We may be able to show progress in a command line window for advanced users.
My apologies for the complexities of this post and my thanks for working through this issue so we can ensure we get downloads working everyone.
My USB is Lexar 32gb, with NTFS fs and no lock switch. After I installed the platform (14.4.3), it was working for a little while. Suddenly, when I try to exit, it said something like "Unable to write to E://PortableApps/PortableAppsMenu/Data/PortableAppsMenu" or something like that. After that, all the files on my usb are write protected, and I don't seem to have the control over it, as Nothing seems to have worked. I have tried using the registry, low level format, cmd, editing the security in the properties of my usb, format, but it always brings a pop up saying that my files are write protected. Is my usb gone?
