You can map an FTP location to a drive letter in Windows. And I know there were hacks to use your Google mail space for this as well. Keep in mind that it will likely be pretty slow in most cases. So, you should use your synced folders. Skip to main content. Start Portable Apps menu from Dropbox. Log in or register to post comments. Last post. June 22, - am. Entrusting your private data on someone elses server is risky.
The first is my "Open" PortableApps which has all the utilities I 'need' for which privacy is not an issue. It also has Firefox but this version has is intentionally disabled for privacy, and only there for use when you are not a sys admin and never used for secure purposes business,purchases etc.
This was set up purely for the occassion where somehow you lose your USB drive - You might have lost your hardware but your privacy is securely locked up in the TrueCrypt volume. When you dismount the TrueCrypt volume you can back it up on local drives I do this at home and work and you could also store that safely on the cloud. The Dropbox API will be released soon so perhaps a portableapps menu plug-in could be created for the portableapps platform when it is released. Ive been using Dropbox for a while now, and portable apps even longer.
However I tend to use the same computers over and over so I installed portable apps on my dropbox folder with the most common apps there.
Since the dropbox drive is small I don-t install all the portable apps Ive downloaded, like games ans such.
Recently I had accident with my notebook puter with my USB stick attached to it. Both got damaged considerably. While my drive is backed up with carbonite, the restore is taking a long while. However all my portable apps on the dropbox file were readily accesible to me, with the documents there too. I think portable apps on a dropbox folder is a great combination that you should promote more. It will never get damaged.
Im planning on making it my primary source of apps, and make a regular copy to my USB drive for when using in a public computer. I also use Dropbox to keep my PortableApps Tunderbird in my case but I use it just for the Data folder using links , that way I always have my Thunderbird installed in a computer with linux, in a computer with windows and in a portable drive in sync.
Chrome and Firefox have their own sync solution and the rest of Apps I just have backups in a portable Hard Disk. If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
The Chrome's built-in sync feature is nice but still it does not sync everything for some reason. For example the opened tabs, history and most visited sites.
And these are quite important. If I have a page opened on one computer and then I want to see it on another, I have to bookmark it first and remember the bookmark. But I want to close the browser on one computer and have it either opened or remembered in history on the other one. So I tried to put my Chrome portable into Dropbox folder to see how it works. The opened tabs work as well as history and other things. But for some reason it disables my extensions. They seem to be still installed and activated but are shaded gray in the Extensions tab and the buttons are missing or saying "page not found" when clicked.
Seems they are missing their files. There are also lots of conflicted copies of various files in the Chrome instalation has probably something to do with it. I was having trouble with dropbox so I did a bit of research and found out that Google docs can be mounted as a filesystem.
I first saw a application called google-doc-fs but that didn't work. I then saw Gladinet and used that. After you follow those instructions install portable apps to your cloud drive.
You may be able to use other cloud systems but I haven't tried the others. Any interruption in your Internet connection to the apps in your dropbox while your using them is the equivalent of unplugging your usb stick while using it. If you want to backup your portable apps installation online Lacie provides the most secure storage and even has 1gb for free.
Use either dropbox, google drive, onedrive, etc Its like a LAN folder for each cloud service you have. Way easier Skip to main content. Log in or register to post comments.
Last post. January 17, - pm. Last seen: 11 years 9 months ago. Joined: It goes against everything Dropbox is intended to do. And remember until about a year ago there was a third party add on that would do it but Dropbox blocked it from working.
But you have to admit that this is no answer to my question, why dropbox doesn't want something like this. Because it was deemed a security risk and a has a massively high risk of data loss. It is also totally and utterly the opposite of what they are trying to do - which is get rid of USB pens. For the time being pen drives are here to stay. So why not support them now - crate a application which minimizes data loss or no data loss at all and also provides good security. The way we work is changing.
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