Download & usage questions.

[Colin Scott]

That's another perfectly valid way of working, though again you need to be sure that the stick has the same drive letter everywhere you use.  Of course, there are different priorities, and if you already have PortableAppls installed on your machines, then yes, it makes sense.   However, there is little difference between running from a hard disk or a stick, except perhaps for a rather more leisurely startup ...

Colin

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*Subject:* Re: Download & usage questions.
*From:* David Carlson <carlson.dl at sbcglobal.net>
*To:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org
*Date:* Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:01:56 -0600

On 1/8/2012 8:49 AM, Colin Scott wrote:
> 
> I use gnucash on a USB stick under the PortableApps environment (www.portableapps.com).  If you have the current PortableApps environment installed on a stick, you can very simply install gnucash from the "Office" section of the list produced by clicking "Apps" and then "Get more apps"
> 
> I have been using this now for a couple of years, and find it very satisfactory.  The only downside is that it can take a while for gnucash releases to find their way into PortableApps, so one is not usually running the very latest version.  For example, I am currently running 2.4.6, but the latest gnucash release is 2.4.8.
> 
> A couple of tips for running this.
> 
> a) I set up my accounts data in <USB_drive_letter>:\portableapps\gnucash\data\accounts.  Then if I want to take a backup, I simply copy the data directory, and that stores my current accounts plus the current application state information all together in one place.
> 
> b) You need to ensure that the stick is given the same drive letter wherever you use it, otherwise gnucash will not be able to find its data.
> 
> Colin Scott
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Since the program is free it can be installed on several computers.  I
sometimes copy my data file onto a USB stick so that I can move it
between computers that are not networked.  When computers are networked,
the data file may be accessed remotely.  When the database back end has
matured sufficiently, that may be the preferred access method.

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