Would installing J on the USB drive too so that it is always in the same place relative to the code folders help solve some of the problems?
Regards, Ric > From: Henry Rich > > I have started putting the code I work on on a USB drive. This allows > me to work on it whether I am at home or at school, which speeds up > development enormously. There are some kinks that I am trying to work > around, and occurs to me that as long as we are discussing Project > Manager, maybe some of these problems can be addressed. > > The environment is: code is on my USB drive; the resulting apps need to > be built on different machines with different targets: at school, a > network drive where all teachers can get to them, at home my home PC or > the USB drive itself. > > The problems are: > > 0. You never know what disk letter a USB drive is going to get. Some > machines it is E, other H, others I. How do I set up the folder > containing the project so it can be seen on different machines? I have > a roaming profile so the J profile is the same everywhere; but this > means the folder's drive letter is wrong most places. > > This is basically a deficiency in the folder system. I have worked > around it my having a program that sniffs out the drive that my stuff > is > on, and modifies USERFOLDERS_j_. This is a kludge in that if I run > Edit|Configure, USERFOLDERS can get set back to its unmodified state. > I > think I want some intelligent folder definition that works with USB > drives. > > 1. The target varies from system to system. At school, I must build > to > a subdirectory of X: which is our shared tools disk. At home, I would > be happy to build to the USB drive itself. > > My workaround has been to create an X: drive at home. This is a > kludge, and not transferable to other environments. What is needed is > a > general way to have the targets, and perhaps some of the sources, > depend > on which machine I am on. > > 2. I need backup! I am getting old enough that remembering where I > put > my keys is a challenge - what happens if I lose my USB drive? I back > up > the drive by hand, but I think that a 'backup' target, that just saves > everything, might be a good idea. It might even be helpful to take > backup every time Project Manager starts. > > Henry > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
