Flash Drive
Christoph R
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Mon Jul 17 02:42:57 EDT 2017
Hi John,
even if you gave up on the topic I would like to point you to: https://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/gnucash_portable <https://portableapps.com/de/apps/office/gnucash_portable>.
I did not use it for a while but it worked for me nicely with an older version.
Cheers,
Christoph
> Am 15.07.2017 um 21:31 schrieb John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com>:
>
> David,
>
> I have pretty much given up on that idea, as you said its a very complex approach, and to be honest, probably not worth the time for the benefit. I saw the space used on the hard drive, and yes I do have enough space for that, so I think I will store the data on the flash drive and run the app from the hard drive. As you said, that's a pretty trivial thing to do and won't take a lot of time.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John
>
>
> On 07/15/2017 12:19 AM, David T. wrote:
>> John,
>>
>> I seem to have misunderstood. I thought you said you were only trying to store the data file on the flash drive; this sounds like you are trying to store the entire application there.
>>
>> Storing the data file is trivial, but trying to load the entire application is another story. Since I am not a Linux guy, I will defer to the comments made here by the others about the difficulties of running an application from removable storage.
>>
>> Gnucash on my mac takes a total of about 175Mb of space. Surely that could fit in the limited space available to you? If that is still a stretch, you can probably delete some of the different language help files; the Japanese docs especially eat up a lot of space.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 1:08, John Wright
>> <minimuddler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> David,
>>
>> Yes, in fact I have gotten the error several times. My first
>> attempt at running gnucash from a flash drive went this way. Installed it on the hard drive, then moved all the gnucash files
>> (except libs) to flash drive, added a .desktop file to
>> user/share/applications. That worked ok, but I couldn't find the
>> icon, and all the lib files were still on the hard drive.
>>
>> The reason I want to do this is that the laptop I just purchased
>> has a 15GB m-stat sshd. So I really don't have a lot of room to
>> play with. Sort of a throwback to the days when everything we ran
>> was stored on floppy drives and either a very small hard drive or
>> no hard drive at all. Of course that was way before the internet.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> On 07/14/2017 01:20 PM, David wrote:
>>>
>>> I guess it's lucky that John only wants to load his data from the
>>> flash drive, then.
>>>
>>> John, be aware that GnuCash always tries to load the last file it
>>> had open; if the folder isn't available when you fire it up, you
>>> will receive an error. Just be sure the USB stick is inserted and
>>> mounted before you start GC, and you should be fine.
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> *From:* David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> <mailto:david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> *Sent:* Fri Jul 14 22:00:33 GMT+05:00 2017
>>> *To:* Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>
>>> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com>
>>> *Cc:* "gnucash-user at gnucash.org"
>>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org> <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>> <mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org>, John Wright
>>> <minimuddler at gmail.com> <mailto:minimuddler at gmail.com>
>>> *Subject:* Re: Flash Drive
>>>
>>> Perhaps this is not sensible, but I once experimented with installing
>>> Gnucash on a USB key configured as a Tails OS with persistent storage.
>>> That is based on Debian Linux. It worked, but it was somewhat clumsy. The
>>> nice thing is that all the data is completely encrypted and insulated from
>>> intruders, "sandboxed" if you will.
>>>
>>> David C
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com> <mailto:heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > At Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:39:17 +0100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> <mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > On this list you have to use Reply All to reply otherwise the message
>>> > > just goes to the previous user (as this did). Forwarding this to the
>>> > > list for information. Also see reply below.
>>> > >
>>> > > On 14 July 2017 at 12:31, John Wright <minimuddler at gmail.com> <mailto:minimuddler at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > > > Colin,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Sorry for the confusion. I what to just run gnucash from the flash
>>> > drive.
>>> > > > Fedora will be installed on the pc and gnucash as well as all the
>>> > gnucash
>>> > > > data will be on the flash drive.
>>> > >
>>> > > To be pedantic you don't want to run gnucash from the flash drive, you
>>> > > want to run gnucash from the HDD and write and read the accounts file
>>> > > to the removable drive, which should be no problem. Gnucash does not
>>> > > care where you save to and read from. If you want saved reports to be
>>> > > on the drive there may be a little more work.
>>> >
>>> > Most (all?) sensibly setup and configured Linux systems will refuse to
>>> > *run*
>>> > programs on removable media, since that is a massive security risk.
>>> >
>>> > Also, gnucash is generally dynamicaly linked and depends on various
>>> > [shared]
>>> > libraries that would need to be installed in system places (eg
>>> > /usr/lib[64]/)
>>> > from various dependent packages. So it is unlikely that putting *just* the
>>> > gnucash exe file on the flash drive will work. Gnucash itself expects to
>>> > find
>>> > stuff in /usr/share/gnucash, which won't be on the flash drive. And also
>>> > has
>>> > its own pile of .so files in /usr/lib[64]/ that it will need to access.
>>> > And
>>> > it is likely that gnucash built for, say Ubuntu, may not run *as is* under
>>> > fedora, becase of different library versions (and whatnot). You really
>>> > need
>>> > to just install the fedora build of gnucash on the fedora (there most
>>> > likely
>>> > is a gnucash-<mumble>.rpm out there somewhere, probably in the fedora
>>> > repository, so a 'sudo yum install gnucash' will do everything needful.)
>>> >
>>> > But otherwise, having the *data* files on the thumb drive is a perfectly
>>> > sensible thing to do. And is possible fairly secure as well.
>>> >
>>> > >
>>> > > Colin
>>> > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Thanks.
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > > > On 07/14/2017 06:04 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>> > > >>
>>> > > >> On 14 July 2017 at 03:12, ov10fac <ov10fac at cox.net> <mailto:ov10fac at cox.net> wrote:
>>> > > >>>
>>> > > >>> Does anyone know if gnucash can be run from a flash drive using
>>> > fedora?
>>> > > >>
>>> > > >> Do you mean you want the program on a flash drive or the data file? If
>>> > > >> you want the data file on the flash drive with gnucash installed in
>>> > > >> fedora on the PC then that is no problem. If you want to install the
>>> > > >> program itself onto the flashdrive, with Fedora on the PC, then that
>>> > > >> is more problematic. Or do you mean you want to run Fedora itself and
>>> > > >> gnucash from the flash drive?
>>> > > >>
>>> > > >> Colin
>>> > > >
>>> > > >
>>> > >
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