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To mikeslr: I am trying to compress a savefolder that I make with the standard Pupsave backup utility, not the active savefolder. I decided to try the built in compressions in the Pupsave backup utility, and the results were: 1) using the xz compression I got a 169 MB file. When I tried to copy it ...

To Wizard: Thanks I tried two compressions: 1) I noticed that on S15Pup32 there was a menu item for "Save folder backup and restore" which I believe is the same as the link I gave above because its help button opened to that link. It ran and produced a file with the save folder name and date and an ...

Thanks, I will give PackIt a try, as well as XArchive. I assume I can not pack a live version of my save folder, so I will use my S15Pup32 to pack my S15Pup64 save folder. I noticed that S15Pup64 has a version 1.15 of PackIt available in the PET manager. Wonder why it does not list the 1.24 version ...

My NTFS HDD is on an old (20 years+) PC that has years of data on it which I do not want to mess up and I do not trust myself to add a Linux partition to it to place a save folder on it. I will eventually get another USB thumb drive and format it ext to save to, but I am curious if there is a way to ...

I am running several frugally installed versions of Puppy from a USB thumb drive, including S15Pup32 and S15Pup64. I've created backups of the save folder for both using the Pupsave Backup tool from the Utility menu. Now I want to save them to my HDD which is NTFS, because I am afraid of losing ...

As a follow up I discovered something that finally allowed me to get an installation of the Pale Moon browser to work on some sites I couldn't access before. This may be useful to other beginners like me that are working from older systems with limited resources. While studying the sysinfo report ...

mikewalsh No, I did not try the Firefox on Mediafire because I think I just don't have enough memory to run Firefox. Thanks for your generous offer to upload more, but please don't for my sake. I have another old PC with Windows XP on it like this one which will allow 4 gigs of RAM on its board but ...

mikeslr I got the Seamonkey sfs from the PeeBee site and ran it. It would not let me on the mega.nz site where MikeWalsh has placed his portables. But it seems like a very responsive browser, so I will play with it some more. I think Seamonkey is built with the old Gecko engine from Mozilla, which ...

mikeslr Regarding Seamonkey: I do not have Uget in the menu. I do have "Pwsget secure file downloader" Would it serve the same task? I am going to try Seamonkey eventually. Regarding memory: I have searched for DDR memory for this PC (Dell) in the past and did find some for sale. I believe the ...

@OscarTalks

Thank you very much for the clear and concise instructions. I did get Firefox.sfs 118.0.1 to run, but it took me an hour to get one web site to mostly open! Obviously it wants more memory than I have to give.

OscarTalks I went to the link you suggested and downloaded the firefox.sfs which ended up in my Downloads folder. When I clicked on it, it gave me the option to view it or install it. I canceled because I wasn't sure where it would be installed. using a browser and then load the .sfs in the normal ...

Wiz57 I have a frugal install onto a USB stick with 2 partitions. Partition 1 is a 300 mB FAT32 with the boot stuff and partition 2 is about 56 gigs, formatted ext3, with the installation files. I used Frugalpup to install and created a folder named S15pup to place the installation files in. I used ...

mikewalsh I went to the mega.nz site (using Light browser) where you placed your portables, but it wouldn't load because it complained the browser was out of date. I'll try later from Slacko7 which has a Firefox 68.12esr browser to see if it will load. I found you had put a portable up here: https ...

@mikewalsh : I will give your portables a try tomorrow when I have more time. I did try one of your portables in Slacko 7 without success. I think it failed due to lack of sufficient memory. I found Firefox 115.3.1esr in the puppy package manager and tried to install but it complained about ...

I have tried to install the Firefox and Palemoon browsers into my S15Pup32, but both give me this error: "No internet access to Sourceforge - exiting". I am using the Internet - Get web browser menu item. I have internet access because I can use the Light browser, but it does not have the ability to ...