Running Portable Apps - Sandboxed

[Simple_One]

Hi,

I'm aiming to install as little as possible on my clean install of Windows 7 64. So basically I'm using only the PortableApps.com launcher and the portable apps, which I can run fine with in Sandboxie.

The problem is, lots of changes get made to files as you use these apps within the root folder of the portableapps launcher. Now this is fine if I make a sandbox that never gets deleted and always run the apps within it, but outside of the sandbox (as it should be), none of these changes occur. The intent of running these portable was to be able to just copy the folder onto a USB or external HDD and off I go with all my apps and profiles just the way they are at home.

So, my question is basically how can I export mass file changes?

For instance, say I dont go anywhere for a month but I run my portable apps sandbox which updates some apps, add some new plugins to my portable browsers and save some documents to my portableapps directory, I now have a bunch of new files scattered throughout various folders within the root directory. If I'm happy with all of the above, what is quickest and most effective way of allowing all the changes and file updates that have been made in the sandbox over the last month, to be replicated in the actual folder on my hard drive?

Cheers

[Simple_One]

Actually in answer to my own question, would the best way be to setup a sandbox and specify the root directory of the portable apps as a quick recovery folder? (I'm assuming that if I quick recover the root folder it takes all the sub folders and files with it and maintains that directory structure as it does so....)

[tzuk]

Perhaps a Direct File Access setting in Sandbox Settings would be more appropriate? This lets you tell Sandboxie that you don't want any sandboxing done for selected folders, and files created/modified go directly outside the sandbox.