Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
At 10:28 AM 3/10/06 -0500, Phil Daley wrote:
At 3/10/2006 10:04 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I've seen folks now & then run various programs when they are traveling by
using a thumb drive (those small memory devices that plug into USB ports).
They plug it in and run the executable on the thumb drive, and save their
documents there as well. That way they can work on material when they are
away from their own machines.
Do you know if this is possible with Finale? To carry Finale, its fonts,
and whatever registration info is needed so it can be run on any machine
without ever installing it at all on that machine, and still be my legal
copy (complete with tether information)?
Could be done on Windows, I don't know about Macs.
I'm on Windows. Finale puts a lot of stuff in the registry (at least in
2K5), and probably puts the license info there too.
The issue came up because a friend (who uses 2K6 at home) has resorted to
Finale Notepad when she visits relatives, and much is lost in going to and
from it. She has a second unused license for Finale, but it's not practical
to commission and decommission every few days when she's visiting. A thumb
drive would be the perfect solution.
Any clues on how it would run completely on the separate thumb drive? I'd
like to try it first (since I have several computers here), but both my
licenses are used and the last thing I want to do is screw *that* up! I
always need to keep ..... very ..... very ..... calm ..... when thinking
about tethered programs. :)
You've answered your own question with that last statement -- Finale is
a tethered program, so when it is moved on a machine to which it has not
been tethered, it won't run.
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David H. Bailey
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