Flash Drive

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 17 23:36:36 EDT 2017 

Christoph,
Portable apps,  I believe, is Windows only; John was working with Linux. But portable apps could help some others. 
David

 
 
  On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:43, Christoph R<subscriptions+listen at rohland.net> wrote:   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. 
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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