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This Patch will solve Mac OS X Lion 10.7 incompatibility of Portable Applications due to CocoaDialog PowerPC binaries inside app bundle.

Download:
- PAppsLionPatch_1.0.dmg (1.3MB)
MD5: 6ec49dba2747c2b43449e544312faddd
Most of OS X Portable Applications running on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion get this error message:

You can patch these Portable Apps:
• Portable Safari | • Portable Mail | • SyncPAppX | • Portable Abiword |
• Portable Adium | • Portable Audacity | • Portable Camino | • Portable Celtx |
• Portable CheckOff | • Portable Chromium | • Portable Cyberduck | • Portable Feed |
• Portable Firefox | • FirefoxLive | • Portable Gimp | • Portable Inkscape |
• Portable LibreOffice | • Portable Newspeak | • Portable Nvu | • Portable OpenOffice.org |
• Portable RSSOwl | • Portable Sunbird | • Portable Thunderbird | • Portable Vienna |
• Portable VLC | • Portable X-Chat Aqua |
Portable AddressBook, Portable iCal and Portable iChat are not Lion compatible.
- Double click on PAppsLionPatch.app icon and you get the Patch Info window:
- Click on Patch Portable Apps… button, you will get an open file dialog window:

- Select your Portable App to patch and click Open.
Wait few seconds while patch is in progress:
An error message warn you if you don't select a compatible Portable Application to patch
- Once done you can Pacht more… apps or Quit.
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If something goes wrong (generally if your app is on a read only volume) you get this warning message:
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Source code
Change log
- 1.0 (2011.09.13)
First public release.
License
PAppsLionPatch.app
Copyright © 2011
Carlo Gandolfi - http://www.freesmug.org
Paolo Portaluri - http://plus2.it/~paolo/
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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