On 10 Mar 2006 at 10:04, 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.
Many of these apps have perhaps been re-engineered for this purpose by John Haller's Portable Apps project: http://portableapps.com/ Of course, these are all Open Source applications, since that's the only way for them to be adaptable for running from a portable volume. > 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)? I doubt that there's any way to do this, as Finale uses the Registry to store settings. If it used only INI files and you could map your thumb drive to use the same drive letter on all the machines you were using, then it might be doable. Possibly. But it doesn't. A feature request to Finale will probably result in nothing, as it would wreck their registration authorization scheme, which is tied to the computer hardware. In other words, you'd need a new authorization code for every PC you ran it on. There's no way for Finale or MakeMusic to know if you're running from a hard drive or from a portable drive, so I don't think this will ever happen. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
