Sorry I understood that part of the problem was that the drive letter of the usb drive with your code on it was unpredictable. I was thinking that if you started J from a folder on your usb you could always ask J for the binpath and define all your project paths relative to that.
-----Original Message----- From: Henry Rich <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 13 November 2009 16:58 To: Beta forum <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jbeta] Projects on USB drives WAS: Project Files J itself is not the problem. J always knows where its own directories and folders are. Henry Sherlock, Ric wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
